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Howard M. Lewis Ship reassigned TAP5-614:
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Assignee: Howard M. Lewis Ship
> Spacer image should have a blank alt attribute to meet w3c accessability
> standards
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> Key: TAP5-614
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5-614
> Project: Tapestry 5
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: tapestry-core
> Affects Versions: 5.1.0.0, 5.1.0.1, 5.1.0.2, 5.0.15, 5.0.16, 5.0.17, 5.0.18
> Reporter: Andy Blower
> Assignee: Howard M. Lewis Ship
> Priority: Minor
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> Our User Experience Design team have raised an issue with the use of the
> tapestry.spacer-image in the Autocomplete mixin. It's also used by the
> default client side validation. The issue is that the spacer img tag is
> rendered with no alt attribute which is apparently a problem for these
> reasons:
> 1) Always add alt attributes to images. Alt is mandatory for accessibility
> and for valid (X)HTML.
> 2) For images that play only a decorative role in the page, use an empty alt
> (i.e. alt="") or a CSS background image so that reading browsers do not
> bother users by uttering things like "spacer image".
> So, Tapestry needs to write a blank alt attribute when it uses a spacer gif.
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