Test Case xhtml1_wcag2_20050630_1.1_l1_sc1_038: Text alternative for ASCII art: description above the ASCII art

Formal Metadata

Formal Metadata
Title	Text alternative for ASCII art: description above the ASCII art
Description	A document with ASCII art (treated by WCAG 2.0 as non-text content), which requires a text alternative. The ASCII art explains the components of a URI. The ASCII illustrates the text in the paragraph above it.
Creator	BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…)
Rights	Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007
Language	English
Date	2005-09-05
Status	draft

Technologies and Features

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: pre (namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml) .

Technical specification: Preformatted text: The PRE element .

Test Data

Purpose

This test case is intended to pass because the ASCII illustrates the text in the paragraph above it, so that paragraph can be considered as a text alternative.

Test Modes

End user.

Test Files

Test file.

TCDL Data

xhtml1_wcag2_20050630_1.1_l1_sc1_038 (XML).

Rules

“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.

Primary Rules

The test case passes (line 14, column 1) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-informative.

Functional Outcome

The ASCII art has a text description.

Technical Comment

The p element preceding the pre element contains a text alternative for the ASCII art.