A document with a single sentence that contains a purely decorative image inside a link. The alt attribute for the image reads: "green star". Text alternative for purely decorative image: non-empty <html:code>alt</html:code> attribute Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2005-08-25 accepted QA How to specify alternate text

This test case is intended to fail because the alt attribute for the purely decorative image is not empty.

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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 decorative image has a text description that is not empty.

The img element has an alt attribute that is not empty.