811477 - linked video images has empty alt-attributes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Information Architecture & UX, defect)

Description

[Isac Lagerblad (:icaaq)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20121106030712

Steps to reproduce:

1. Press Cmd+N to open a new browser window, then type https://www-demo1.allizom.org/b/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2011/ in the address bar and press Enter
2. Inspect the Mozilla video image in the welcome section. There are more video images that has the same error on that page.


Actual results:

the linked image has a empty alt-attribute


Expected results:

If a image is the only content of a link, then the alt attribute must communicate the destination of the link or action taken.
 - http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/#tree

The alt attribute should be something like "Watch the Mozilla welcome video"

Comment 1

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

As far as I can tell, these video images do all have alt attributes now.