See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
HTML and XHTML documents that load images.
This technique relates to:
The purpose of this technique is to show how images can be marked so that they can be ignored by Assistive Technology.
If no title attribute is used, and the alt text is set to null (i.e.
alt="") it indicates to assistive technology that the image can be safely
ignored.
Note: Have a "null" alt attribute is not the same as having no alt attribute.
The following image is used to insert a decorative image on a Web page.
Example Code:
<img src="squiggle.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="" />
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For each image that should be ignored:
Check that title attribute is either absent or empty.
Check that alt attribute is present and empty.
#1 and #2 are true
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.