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area elements have an alt attribute.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'accepted'.
Guideline: 1.1 - Provide text alternatives for all non-text content.
Success Criteria:
1. For all non-text content that is used to convey information, text alternatives identify the non-text content and convey the same information. For multimedia , provide a text-alternative that identifies the multimedia. Refer to guideline 1.2 for requirements for synchronized alternatives for multimedia. How to provide text alternatives for content that conveys information . (Informative)
Level 1
The WCAG2 has 3 priority levels for making Web content accessible. This test has a priority of 'Level 1'.
The WCAG Working Group has created techniques that describe how Web content may be made accessible. The following techniques are related to this test:
There are no prerequisite tests for this test.
area elements for the presence of an alt attribute.area elements have an alt attribute.alt attribute to the area element.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
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area element missing alt attribute.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #64 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" href="reference.html" />
</map></p>
</body>
</html>
area element has alt attribute.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #64 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><map id="map1" name="map1">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" href="reference.html" alt="reference section"/>
</map></p>
</body>
</html>