object-text-alternative-quality

<object> text alternative must be appropriate (manual review)

manualWCAG 1.1.1 (A)confidence: mediumseverity: minorperceivable

Flags <object> elements with detected fallback or name for human review of equivalence and appropriateness.

Applies to. Applies to <object> elements that already carry a text alternative: fallback text content, a non-empty aria-label, an aria-labelledby that resolves to non-empty text, or a non-empty title. An <object> with none of those is object-text-alternative-present's failure, not a quality question. The element must be included in the accessibility tree, and role="presentation"/"none" takes it out of scope unless it is focusable, which restores its role.

Expectation. Human review is required to confirm that the provided text alternative is accurate and appropriate.

Examples

can't tell
<object data="brochure.pdf" type="application/pdf">Product brochure (PDF)</object>

Fallback text is present — worth confirming "Product brochure (PDF)" is genuinely equivalent to the embedded document, not just a filler caption.

n/a
<object data="brochure.pdf" type="application/pdf"></object>

No fallback content, ARIA name, or title exists to review; that's `object-text-alternative-present`'s failure instead.

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