On 14 October 2014 22:26, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > Adding a note about the fact that Web browsers may truncate an alt > atribute value when rendered, to fit it into space reserved into an image I would suggest more testing and needs to be conducted as adding a note as you suggest is not helpful as it oversimplifies the observed behaviours of browsers for display of images when images are disabled or unavailable. here is some 4 year old analysis, testing and data http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/01/alt-and-title-content-display-in-popular-browsers/ http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/HTML5/alt-tests/screenshots.html http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/HTML5/alt-tests/alt-examples.html I started looking into browser behaviour again more recently I have observed that Chrome does not display alt text for *any* images when images are disabled through browser settings. -- Regards SteveF HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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