Kilotest: Diagnoses of image alt long violation by HTML element 360 on Freedom of the Press Foundation page

Here is how tools diagnose the image alt long issue for HTML element 360 of the Freedom of the Press Foundation page.

Basics

About the image alt long issue
- Why it matters: Helper gives a user an overly verbose explanation of an image
- Priority: low
- Related WCAG standard: 1.1.1
About the Freedom of the Press Foundation page
- URL: https://freedom.press/
- Tested on 2026-04-02 at 14:24
About HTML element 360
- Take me there
- Tag name: IMG
- Text: New bill would fix law that’s failing journalists … SEARCH & SEIZURE•ARTICLE
- Start tag: <img alt="A new bill introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), pictured here in September 2025, would give teeth to the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, an important protection for journalists." class="card-image" height="254" src="https://media.freedom.press/media/images/Wyden_AP25247725234867.2e16d0ba.fill-451x254.jpg" width="451">
- XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[2]/section[1]/div[2]/article[2]/img[1]
- Bounding box: x = 1303, y = 2027, width = 357, height = 201

Image text alternatives are announced by screen readers as a single run-on sentence; listeners must listen to the entire alt a second time if they miss something. If this cannot be reworded to something succinct, it is better to use the alt to reference a visible <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/complex/" title="Opens in new tab" target="_blank">text alternative for complex images</a>. For example: <ul><li>"Event poster; details follow in caption"</li> <li>"Chart showing our issues going to zero; details follow in table"</li></ul> This image's alt text is: A new bill introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), pictured here in September 2025, would give teeth to the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, an important protection for journalists.
Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

Rule: altLong
Long alternative text
Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

Rule: alt_long