input-image-alt-present

<input type="image"> must have an alt attribute

automaticWCAG 1.1.1 (A)confidence: highseverity: seriousperceivable

Checks that <input type="image"> elements provide an alt attribute to support a text alternative mechanism.

Applies to. Applies to <input type="image"> elements included in the accessibility tree.

Expectation. Each applicable <input type="image"> element has an alt attribute, and its accessible name is not the browser default for an image button. The alt attribute may be empty (alt="").

Examples

pass
<input type="image" src="search.png" alt="Search">

A non-empty `alt` names the image button.

fail
<input type="image" src="search.png">

No `alt` attribute.

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