| Title | Information available through coloured icons and their text alternatives [new] |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing a conference schedule with three tracks. There are two tracks with three presentations each. Coloured icons are used to indicate the track in which a presentation belongs, and this information is also available through the icons' text alternatives but not in normal text. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (johannes.koch@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2007-12-07 |
| Status | draft |
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: The alt attribute .
This test case is intended to fail because the information which track the session belongs to is not visually evident without colour but only through the icons' text alternatives.
Accessibility expert.
“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 23, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 24, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 25, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 29, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 30, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 31, column 100: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#visual-audio-contrast-without-color.
The track information is available from the icon's text alternative.
The information which track the session belongs to is available from the icon's colour and the img element's alt attribute. But the colour coding is not simultaneously visually evident without the colour.
This test case maps to technique G14: Ensuring that color-encoded information is also available in text.
(See example 2: A color-coded schedule with icons. However, the test procedure requires that the text is not conditional content (in other words, not alt text.)