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Re: H tag with image as content?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 12, 2013 12:24PM

It's a bug in the tool. There's nothing wrong with that as long as the 'alt' attribute is appropriate.

Steve Green

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Sent: 12 February 2013 19:20
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] H tag with image as content?

Seems like many/most of the accessibility tools flag a Heading tag that contains ONLY and image with no test content as having no content:

<h1>
<a href="index.html">
<img alt="Image text" src="image.gif" /> </a> </h1>

I thought the alt attribute would count as content. Looks like I was mistaken? If the alt doesn't count as textual content, what is a the best practice technique for this?

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