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Image types identified

Supplemental requirement

The image types (photo, illustration, chart, etc.) are indicated.

Except when

  • An image is a link or a part of a link.
  • An image is a button or a part of a button.
  • An image is “purely” decorative (e.g. icon used alongside text, thumbnail image within a link).

Tests

Procedure

For each image:

  1. Check if the image is not a link, a button, any other interactive element nor purely decorative.
  2. Check that the image type is described by the text alternative.

Expected results

Key Terms

decorative

serving only an aesthetic purpose, providing no information, and having no functionality

Text is only purely decorative if the words can be rearranged or substituted without changing their purpose.

image type

To be defined.