Empty alt attribute is not consistently supported - No longer true #2273
Description
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
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>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