Focusable image with empty alt

[giacomo-petri]

Accessibility support

Images can have their role set to presentation through an empty alt attribute. Presentational Roles Conflict Resolution does not specify what to do if such an image is focusable (it only specifies what to do in case of explicit role="none" or role="presentation"). Some browsers expose these images and some don’t. Thus, this rule may fail for technologies that expose these without creating an accessibility issue for users of other technologies.

ACT Rules

• Image has non-empty accessible name - 23a2a8

Test cases

Test case 1

Image element with empty acc name and non-negative tabindex attribute value

<img src="some_src" alt="" tabindex="0">

Test cases

Test instructions

• Just run the test and check the element role

External links

• (I'll open a WPT test for this one)
• WAI-ARIA: missing ARIA specs, opened Presentational Roles Conflict Resolution vs image[alt=""] w3c/aria#2415

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Test results

Test case 1

I've run them locally and all browsers are exposing the element as a role image

## Test case 1

- Date: 29 Jan 2025
- Operating system: not relevant
- Browser: Safari, Chrome, Firefox
- Assistive technology: not relevant
- Test result: Passed