F38: Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to omitting the alt-attribute for non-text content used for decorative purposes only in HTML

This describes a failure condition for text alternatives for images that should be ignored by AT. If there is no alt attribute at all assistive technologies are not able to ignore the non-text content. The alt attribute must be proved and have a null value (i.e. alt="" or alt=" ") to avoid a failure of this Success Criterion.

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Procedure

1. Identify any img and applet elements that are used for purely decorative content;

2. Check that the alt attribute for these elements exists.

3. Check that the alt attribute for these elements is null.

Expected Results

• if step #2 or step #3 is false, this failure condition applies and content fails the Success Criterion.