| 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 image reads: "green star". |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| 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 fail because the alt attribute for the purely decorative image is not empty.
Three or more accessibility experts.
“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 108: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The decorative image has a text description that is not empty.
This test case maps to failure F39: Failure of SC 1.1.1 due to providing a text alternative that is not null. (e.g. alt="spacer" or alt="image") for Images that should be ignored by AT (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#F39).
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 9, column 92: 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.