SC-1.4.5: Styled heading rendered as image of text
Corpus WCAG 2.2Applies to WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2Level AAAutomatable: partial
Summary: A heading is an image of text where plain text would suffice.
Why it fails: Users who need to resize or restyle text cannot read the heading because it is a raster image instead of real text.
Failure technique
Synthetic specimen — no W3C failure technique.
Understanding
Quickref
Intentional failure — audit this region
SC-1.4.5
Promotional banner rendered as an image of text:
<p>Promotional banner rendered as an image of text:</p>
<img src="/assets/image-of-text.png" alt="Sale ends Sunday" width="240" height="40">Expected audit result
- 1.4.5: fail — Specimen demonstrates failure of 1.4.5.
Manual check: Confirm the image conveys text that could be presented with CSS styling instead.