Introduces a new configuration option, IgnoreAltEmpty for allowing alt attribute checks against images, while being more lenient with explicit empty alt attributes. WAI instructs HTML practitioners to set an explicitly empty alt attribute for decorative images that offer no additional context or meaningful information to a page, so that they can be skipped by screen readers:
Introduces a new configuration option,
IgnoreAltEmptyfor allowing alt attribute checks against images, while being more lenient with explicit empty alt attributes. WAI instructs HTML practitioners to set an explicitly empty alt attribute for decorative images that offer no additional context or meaningful information to a page, so that they can be skipped by screen readers:https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/
Fixes #153
I have been using this on my own fork to validate https://vivanti.com/