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Bug 22576 - ALT for an image if text link where the image has more than 3 or 4 words.
Summary: ALT for an image if text link where the image has more than 3 or 4 words.
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2013-07-04 15:51 UTC by dmacdona
Modified: 2016-04-25 23:32 UTC (History)
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Description dmacdona 2013-07-04 15:51:43 UTC 
We provide advice when an image of text is a link, and there is a sentence or so (say about 10 words)... we should explain what image text do we leave out of the ALT and under what conditions. Describing the purpose of the link (WCAG 2.4.4) balanced against anything the image might be contributing to the context where it resides. (WCAG 1.1.1) and sometimes meeting both.

How about something like this?

In cases where the image of text is a link, then the primary consideration for the ALT text is to describe the link destination, followed by any text in the image that is important to context of the page where the image resides.

Example 1
An image with about 10 words, where we should leave out some words

Example 2
An example with more than 4 words where we should keep all of the words that are in the image
Comment 1 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2016-04-25 23:32:08 UTC 
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Moved to Github issue: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/260

To file additional issues please use the W3C HTML5 Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new Thanks!