A document with an img element that displays a cat. The image has as text alternative (in the alt attribute): ‘A black and white elephant named Harrison". Alternative text for images: alt attribute does not make sense Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-05-10 accepted QA How to specify alternate text

This a test case is intended to fail because the alt attribute of the img is incorrect.

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The image does not have a text description that conveys the same information: it says it shows an elephant instead of a cat.

The img element has an alt attribute that is not relevant to the image ("elephant" instead of "cat").

This test case does not map to a WCAG 2.0 technique or failure.

The image does not have a text description that conveys the same information: it says it shows an elephant instead of a cat.

The img element has an alt attribute that is not relevant to the image ("elephant" instead of "cat").

Online version: sc1.1.1_l1_004.

The image does not have a text description that conveys the same information: it says it shows an elephant instead of a cat.

The img element has an alt attribute that is not relevant to the image ("elephant" instead of "cat").

The image has a text description.

The img element has an alt attribute with appropriate alternative text and therefore the img element is valid.