Axe: Text Alternatives (text-alternatives)

axe/text-alternatives contains accessibility rules from the axe text-alternatives category.

See the “Can the hint be configured?” section of hint-axe for examples of enabling, disabling, and changing the severity of individual rules.

Default rules (WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA)

• Active <area> elements must have alternate text (area-alt)
• Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation (document-title)
• Frames must have an accessible name (frame-title)
• Images must have alternate text (image-alt)
• Image buttons must have alternate text (input-image-alt)
• <object> elements must have alternate text (object-alt)
• [role=’img’] elements must have an alternative text (role-img-alt)
• Server-side image maps must not be used (server-side-image-map)
• <video> elements must have captions (video-caption)

Additional rules (off by default)

• Frames should have a unique title attribute (frame-title-unique)
• Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (image-redundant-alt)
• <svg> elements with an img role must have an alternative text (svg-img-alt)