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img
elements used as source anchors is not empty when there is no other text in the anchor.Copyright 2005, ATRC, University Of Toronto, All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply.
This test case was created by the ATRC at the University Of Toronto. It should not be construed as required for conformance with the proposed WCAG2.
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As part of the conformance test process, this test has a status of 'rejected'.
This test is not required for conformance to the current WCAG2. It is provided for discussion and informational purposes only.
There are no techniques related to this test.
The following tests must be run before running this test. If any of the prerequisite tests fail then this test is invalid and should not be run.
img
element that occurs within a source a
(anchor) element.a
(anchor) element contains any other text.img
elements used as source anchors is not empty when there is no other text in the anchor.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
These test files contain examples of the accessibility problem detectable by this test. They may also contain more accessibility problems than the one described in this test. Please ignore any extraneous accessibility problems in these files.
img
is contained by A element, anchor has no other text and Alt text is empty.)
<?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>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #7 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="rex.html"><img src="rex.jpg" alt=""/></a></p>
</body>
</html>
img
is contained by A element, anchor has no other text and Alt text is not empty.)
<?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>
<title>OAC Testfile - Check #7 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="rex.html"><img src="rex.jpg" alt="a story about Rex the cat"/></a></p>
</body>
</html>