Kilotest: Diagnoses of image button not named violation by HTML element 47 on WebAIM page

Basics

About the WebAIM page

• URL: https://webaim.org/
• Tested 29 days ago by job vbr on 2026-05-03 at 17:03

About HTML element 47

• Tag name: INPUT
• Text: Search:
• Start tag: <input type="image" src="/media/template/search.svg" alt="Submit Search">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/header[1]/div[2]/form[1]/p[1]/span[1]/input[2]
• Bounding box: x = 788, y = 147, width = 27, height = 25

About the image button not named issue

• Why it matters: User cannot get help understanding an image used as a button
• Priority: highest
• Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the image button not named issue for HTML element 47 of the WebAIM page.

1. [warning] Please verify that the value of the alt attribute correctly describes the function of the button.

   Tool: QualWeb (University of Lisbon)

   Rule: QW-WCAG-T5