This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 26160 - [a11y] ALT attribute is empty in all code examples
Summary: [a11y] ALT attribute is empty in all code examples
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-06-21 09:05 UTC by Artur Ortega
Modified: 2015-06-05 13:28 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description Artur Ortega 2014-06-21 09:05:17 UTC 
Examples should provide the desired mark-up because users will follow them subconsciously.
We should therefore promote in all our examples accessible html mark-up.
For a fix I would suggest to replace
ALT=""
with
ALT"Marie Lloyd"
Comment 1 steve faulkner 2014-06-21 09:13:24 UTC 
referring to the examples in the added from the upstream picture spec http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content.html#introduction-0
Comment 2 steve faulkner 2014-06-23 11:16:14 UTC 
note, alt is not empty in all code examples just some, will review.