| Title | Text alternative for purely decorative image: non-empty alt attribute |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a single sentence that contains a purely decorative image inside a link. The alt attribute for the spacer image reads: "green star". |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-25 |
| Status | draft |
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 fail because the alt attribute for the purely decorative image is not empty.
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 136: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-ignored.
The decorative image has a text description that is not empty.
The img element has an alt attribute that is not empty.
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 decorative image has a text description that is not empty.
The HTML specification does not define the meaning of an empty alt attribute on an img element.