Mark as Decorative

  • TheDSS

    (@elitegd)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I’m marking some of my images as decorative but they are still being flagged by webaim and tenon as missing alt text and when i look at the source code I don’t see any indication that they are marked in anyway as decorative.

    Is there something I need to configure or how do I have my decorative images not fail accessibility testing.

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  • Plugin Author Joe Dolson

    (@joedolson)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, they will be. You’re marking them as decorative purely so that the WP Accessibility plug-in won’t prevent you from entering them with an empty alt attribute; there’s no systematic method for marking images as being decorative in HTML. As a result, any accessibility tester will still flag images with no alt text as being potential accessibility errors.

    Remember that automated accessibility testing is not fool proof; automation will always return some false positives and fail to detect a wide variety of errors.

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