Kilotest: Diagnoses of image alt long violation by HTML element 182 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 34 days ago by job ocb on 2026-04-28 at 16:47

About HTML element 182

• Tag name: IMG
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <img width="1024" height="536" src="https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-1024x536.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large" alt="Illustration for the CDT report, entitled &quot;Common Concern: Americans Worried About Personal Data Held by Public Agencies and Want Government Accountability.&quot; Layers of icons, including a locked file, a key, and a spherical grid." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-640x335.jpg 640w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-768x402.jpg 768w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CDT-Common-Concern-social-graphic-032726-2048x1072.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[2]/div[2]/div[1]/img[1]
• Bounding box: x = 869, y = 1010, width = 641, height = 336

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

Diagnoses

Here is how tools diagnose the image alt long issue for HTML element 182 of the Center for Democracy and Technology page.

1. <p>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 <em>visible</em> <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:</p> <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: <em>Illustration for the CDT report, entitled &quot;Common Concern: Americans Worried About Personal Data Held by Public Agencies and Want Government Accountability.&quot; Layers of icons, including a locked file, a key, and a spherical grid.</em>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: altLong

2. Long alternative text

   Tool: WAVE (Utah State University)

   Rule: alt_long