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input
elements with a type
attribute value of "image" is less than 100 characters (English) or the user has confirmed that the Alt text is as short as possible.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.
input
elements that have a type
attribute value of "image".input
elements with a type
attribute value of "image" is less than 100 characters (English) or the user has confirmed that the Alt text is as short as possible.Any accessibility check may be performed after this test.
This test contains language specific directions and is dependent upon the language of the content. It may be applied only to content written in the following languages:
Language | Maximum Alt text Length |
---|---|
eng | 100 |
ger | 115 |
kor | 90 |
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.
input
element, type
of "image", has Alt text greater than 100 characters.)
<?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 #60 - Positive</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label for="name">Name</label>: <br/><br/><input type="image" name="name" id="name" src="name.jpg" alt="This is some very long alt text for the contro's image. Your alt text should not be this long. Shorten the text to make it more accessible and more pleasant for all.">
</form>
</body>
</html>
input
element, type
of "image", has Alt text less than 100 characters.)
<?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 #60 - Negative</title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<label for="name">Name</label>: <br/><br/><input type="image" name="name" id="name" src="input.jpg" alt="name">
</form>
</body>
</html>