[Bug 22930] img with empty alt don't need to have own item

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22930

--- Comment #7 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to comment #6)

> >     <img role="img" alt="" src="fileName" />
> 
> in that case Firefox says the image accessible name is empty on demand and
> AT shouldn't repair it like to use its src attribute. In case of

In other words, there is no difference between an @alt attribute that is empty
and an @alt attribute that is filled with whitespace: Both are empty, from a
user’s point of view, at least.

> <img role="img" src="fileName" />
> 
> Firefox says there's no name and AT might want to use src as name
> alternative. But probably nobody does it.

VoiceOver+Safari does use @src. Or, if it is child of <a>, it under some
conditions uses @href.

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Received on Sunday, 18 August 2013 14:58:48 UTC