IgnoreAltEmpty option for alt="" decorative images #200
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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: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decorative/ Fixes wjdp#153
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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/