Kilotest: Diagnoses of image alt long violation by HTML element 192 on Center for Democracy and Technology page

Basics

About the Center for Democracy and Technology page

• URL: https://cdt.org/
• Tested 27 days ago by job 78w on 2026-05-05 at 17:27

About HTML element 192

• Tag name: IMG
• Text: [not applicable]
• Start tag: <img width="1024" height="539" src="https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-1024x539.png" class="attachment-large size-large" alt="A still from an animated PSA by CDT, discussing the power of mail-in voting and the security measures around it. Six mail-in ballots are being scanned to check for barcodes, signatures, and other built-in checks to prevent double voting." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-1024x539.png 1024w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-640x337.png 640w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-768x404.png 768w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-1536x808.png 1536w, https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-CDT-Mail-in-Voting-Security-Measures-2048x1077.png 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">
• XPath: /html/body/div[1]/main[1]/div[1]/section[3]/div[2]/div[1]/img[1]
• Bounding box: x = 410, y = 1449, width = 641, height = 338

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 192 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>A still from an animated PSA by CDT, discussing the power of mail-in voting and the security measures around it. Six mail-in ballots are being scanned to check for barcodes, signatures, and other built-in checks to prevent double voting.</em>

   Tool: Editoria11y (Princeton University)

   Rule: altLong