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Re: code triggering WAVE

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 10, 2010 5:42PM

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM, James Bailey < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Yahoo puts code at the bottom of pages they host and WAVE flags it for a missing alt attribute.

Correct. The javascript code
(http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/smb/js/hosting/cp/js_source/whv2_001.js)
writes an image to the page which is not given alternative text. This
code is also invalid HTML.

Did you have a question or concern about this WAVE behavior or were
you just alerting us to the fact that the WAVE toolbar properly
evaluates the accessibility of the page after the scripted content has
been generated?

Jared