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- 2008 Collection
altText- Breadcrumbs
- Code Samples
- Contact Details & Authorship
- Creative Writing
- Dialogue & Discussion
- Forms
- Headings
- Insertions & Deletions
- Language Changes
- Links
- Lists
- Paragraphs
- Phrase & Formatting
- Punctuation
- Quotes
- Tables
Out of 63 entries:
- 12 (19%) omit
altwhen text is needed. - 1 (2%) omit
altwhen no text is needed. - 6 (10%) use empty
altwhen text is needed. - 3 (5%) use empty
altwhen no text is needed. - 1 (2%) use
altwhen no text is needed. - 11 (17%) use filenames in
alt. - 8 (13%) duplicate nearby text (adjescent sibling or thereabouts).
- 0 (0%) duplicate distant text (further away than the above).
- 7 (11%) use innacurate
alt(difference from the image is more than punctuation). - 2 (3%) use irrelevant
alt(no relation to what the image says). - 9 (14%) use inadequate
alt(misses key details in what the image says). - 8 (13%) confuse
altandtitlein some way.
(Equals 109% due to many values rounding up.)
- @media Blog: Hello World!
alt="blah"for a cartoon frame.- a83.org: Support
alt=""for topic status icons.- Accessibility
- Staffordshire eGovernment Partnership for Staffordshire Connects.
- Get Adobe Acrobat Reader for Get Adobe Reader.
- ALA: Accessible Data
altduplicates main heading text.- ALA: Control Maps
altduplicates main heading text.altduplicates subsequent paragraph.- ALA: Survey Complete
<a href title="Link Text"><img alt="" src /></a>for<a href><img src alt="Link Text"></a>.- Alex Faaborg : Microformats IV
altis Filename.longdescis Base IRI.- Apple: Interface Guidelines
alt = "image: ../art/mini_useicon.jpg"foralt="Tick".- AVG
<input ... alt=">>>">for<input ... alt="Search">.- AVG: References
- Some
altexpands initials in logos. - AVG: Risk Levels
altfortitle?altshould be in previous heading?alt="promotional"for “References” section.- BBC - TV Delivery
altdoesn’t match image in “Notes” section.- BCAB: RNIB
alt="RNIB logo"foralt="Helping you live with sight loss".- betMooch: Euro 2008
alt="Steve knows best"foralt="Steve McClaren’s® Lucky Dip".alt="Bet Offers"foralt="Latest Bet Offers".alt="Kit Offers"foralt="Latest Kit Offers".- CSUN Conference
- CCHP logo expanded in
altwith a tagline. - CSUN: Best Practices
altdescribes header image instead of providing its text.- Customize [...] with TweakUI
<a href><img src alt="Alt Text"> Alt Text</a>.- Dave: Boards: WRC
alt="Angry"for angry smiley.- Dave: WRC FAQ
- Section title for
alttext. - DreamHost
alt="Dreamhost"for a box with 2 lists of features.- ExpressionEngine
altrepeats nearby link text.- Fieldsets - Paciello Group
- Long
alt, repetitive.- Redundant due to previous paragraph.
- Missing capital letter.
- Straight quotes.
- Redundant due to previous paragraph.
- GBCF-v3 - Help Page and Documentation - GBCF-v3 Demo
altcontains 3 words but image contains 1 word.altduplicatestitle.- Google Chart API
- Inadequate information? Chart Title examples don't include the title, but don't need to?
- Graphics in Mozilla
- File names.
- Happy Webbies: Series 2 Buttons
- Repeats section title.
- Does not name the webbies or describe colours.
- Could use
alt=""because a description is further down the page. - Does not name the webbies or describe colours.
- How-To Geek
alt="image"for screenshots.- How-To Geek
- File names.
- Ian Lloyd: Keynote Buddy
altdoes not describe specifics of the mockup.- iheni: #080808
altrepeats previous paragraph.- IntelliAdmin: 5 sins of Vista
alt=""for spacer.- Paraphrased section titlefor screenshots.
- ishida: New RSS
- Long
altmatching longtitlefor shortaltand longtitle. - ishida: photos
alt="A photo on Flickr"with image title in title attribute.alt="Sample photo.1".- ishida: ruby in Firefox
alt=" "followed by<span class="caption">.- Juicy Studio: QA
- Braille in
background-imagewith noalt. - KDE Developers: Search
alttext is coherent and numbered but undescriptive filenames.- Malarkey: Solihull Council
- Empty
alton graphical link to a large image. - Messenger Blog: Love/Hate
- Absent
altfor cartoons described in main content.- Absent
altfor emoticons. - Absent
- Microsoft: Pointer Ballistics
- Vmouseequation for maths.
- Filenames for graphs followed by commentary.
- Mozilla Labs: Featured Projects
altmising from graphical headings.- MultiLingual Computing: News
- Missing
alton pagination links. - News and issues
alt=""for semi-decorative photos.- Nikita: Encoding Divination
- Image map unusable when images are disabled.
- Opera: Right Doctype
- Missing
alt.title="Picture of the article author Roger Johansson". - pbwiki - Blog
- Filenames.
- Park University - Online, Undergraduate, and Graduate Degrees
<img src alt="arrow" height width>for CSSlist-style-image.- Petition Spot: Save the Accessibility Institute
- Empty
altfor Share Petition graphical link. - Recycle Bin
- Missing.
- RegEx Matching
- Performance graph shapes not described.
- Finite Automata diagrams (and many others) undescribed.
- Run Fx3 Portable App
- Filenames.
- RUNNER+
- Missing for image links.
- RUNNER+ Dissection Photos
- File names.
- SitePoint: CSS filter
alt=""for images demonstrating the result of code samples.- Figure name as only description.
- SmartFTP KB
- Inadequate UI description.
- Steve Marshall: Search...fail
alt=""for photo of author.- Technorati
alt="Image of: Title".- Source order puts image before the headings which introduce it.
- Technorati: Photos
- Missing.
titleused instead. - Unspace - Haml
- Filename minus file extension with capital first letter.
- Walterzorn Drag & Drop
- Missing.
- Webware: Firefox address bar
alt=""instead of describing a screenshot.- WHATWG Blog: Vim
altdescribes image without supplying text from the image.<a href><img alt></a>for<pre><samp>...</samp></pre>.- Wikipedia: Ford-Fulkerson algorithm
- Math notation (latex?) in
altfor Unicode characters.alt=""for diagrams. - YUI: Performance V
altrepeats preceeeding<h4>.