Accessibility support

There are several popular browsers that do not treat images with an empty alt attribute (alt="") as having a role of presentation but instead add the img element to the accessibility tree with a semantic role of either img or graphic.

ACT Rules

• Image has non-empty accessible name - 23a2a8

Test cases

Test case 1

An image with empty alt attribute value or no alt attribute value at all

<img src="some_src.png" alt="">
<img src="some_src.png" alt>

Testcase

External links

• WPT: https://wpt.fyi/results/html-aam/roles.html?label=experimental&label=master&aligned ['el-img-alt-no-value', 'el-img-empty-alt']
• ARIA in HTML: https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/#el-img-no-name

Test results

All browsers are ignoring/treating the image with empty alt as generic