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New rule: H35 - applet-alt

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H35 - applet-alt

This test checks if a text alternative is provided for an applet by using the alt attribute to label an applet and provide the text alternative in the body of the applet element.

Tags: wcag2a, wcag111, cat.text-alternatives

Selector

Select each applet element.

Checks (any)

text-alternatives/applet-alt-alt

Check that the applet element contains an alt attribute with a text alternative for the applet: use has-alt rule.

text-alternatives/applet-alt-text

Check that the applet element contains a text alternative for the applet in the body of the applet element.

text-alternatives/applet-alt-aria

Check whether the text alternative is set with use of ARIA. Look for aria-label, aria-labelledby attributes.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:12 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Danidudecommented, Nov 16, 2017

Looking at this rule, all the checks already exsit in axe-core, so using them.

applet-alt-alt -> has-alt

applet-alt-text -> has-visible-text

applet-alt-aria -> aria-labelledby, aria-label

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WilcoFierscommented, Sep 15, 2017

Suggestions:

Make step 1, checking if it has a source, part of the selector
Make step 2 and 3 separate checks. This is a pretty natural way to break the check up, plus you can reuse existing checks. There is already a has-alt and button-has-visible-text check which you can modify.
Add ARIA checks to this as well, aria-label and aria-labelledby should also be permitted.
As for the rule ID, applet-alt seems good