| Title | Text alternative for area in image map: correct alt text |
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| Description | A document with an image map.
The image map has two areas (area elements), corresponding to two phrases in the image: one for the text "Reference" (top half of image) and one for the text "Audio Visual Lab" (bottom half).
The alt attributes for the areas read "Reference" and "Audio Visual Lab", respectively.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-31 |
| Status | accepted QA |
| Source | Test suite: HTML Test Suite for WCAG 2.0. Source file: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/testfiles/194-2.html by Chris Ridpath (borrowed with modifications). |
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: area
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
Client-side image maps: the map and area elements
.
This test case is intended to pass because the text alternatives for the two areas in the image map are correct. Only text alternatives for areas are tested here, not the text alternative for the image used in the map.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 11, column 76) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#text-equiv-all.
The test case passes (line 12, column 75) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#text-equiv-all.
The text description of both image map areas contain all non-decorative text in the image.
The alt attributes of both area elements contain all non-decorative text in the image.
This test case maps to technique H24: Providing text alternatives for the area elements of image maps.
The test case passes (line 11, column 76) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The test case passes (line 12, column 75) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#text-equiv-all.
The text description of both image map areas contain all non-decorative text in the image.
The alt attributes of both area elements contain all non-decorative text in the image.
Online version: sc1.1.1_l1_044.
The test case passes (line 11, column 76) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-functional.
The test case passes (line 12, column 75) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#text-equiv-functional.
The text description of both image map areas contain all non-decorative text in the image.
The alt attributes of both area elements contain all non-decorative text in the image.