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 18411 - lack of alt not flagged as an error
Summary: lack of alt not flagged as an error
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-26 11:50 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2012-10-05 07:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description steve faulkner 2012-07-26 11:50:22 UTC 
In this situation (img element with no alt) the document is not conforming as per HTML5, yet no errors are flagged

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p><IMG  title=arrow src="/images/choose.jpg"></p>
</body>
</html>

please fix