| Title | Text alternative for spacer image: empty alt attribute |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a single sentence that contains a spacer image. The alt attribute for the spacer image is empty. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-25 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: img
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: How to specify alternate text .
This test case is intended to pass because the alt attribute for the spacer image is empty.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 9, column 117) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#text-equiv-all.
The spacer image has an empty text description and can therefore be ignored by assistive technologies.
The img element has an empty alt attribute.
This test case maps to technique H67: Using null alt text and no title attribute on img elements for images that AT should ignore.
The test case passes (line 9, column 117) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The spacer image has an empty text description and can therefore be ignored by assistive technologies.
The test case passes (line 9, column 117) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-ignored.
The spacer image has an empty text description and can therefore be ignored by assistive technologies.
The img element has an empty alt attribute.
The test case needs review before it can be established if it passes or fails the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20050211/#4.1_use-spec-document-backward-compat-violations.
The spacer image has a text description that is empty.
The HTML specification does not define the meaning of an empty alt attribute on an img element.