| Title | Text alternative for image button: missing alt text |
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| Description | A document with a form that uses an image button for form submission.
The alt attribute of the input element is missing, so there is no text alternative for the image.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-31 |
| 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 .
Feature: input
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: Control types created with INPUT .
This test case is intended to fail because there is no text alternative of the image in the image button (for form submission). This test is only for the text alternative of the image button, not for the label of the text input field or other parts of the page.
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 13, column 5: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The text description of the graphical submit button is missing.
The input element has no alt attribute (which is optional for validation but required for WCAG.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 13, column 5: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-functional.
The text description of the graphical submit button is missing.
The input element has no alt attribute (which is optional for validation but required for WCAG.