# Failure of Success Criterion 1.1.1 due to using ASCII art without providing a text alternative

ID: F72

Technology: failures

Type: Failure

## When to Use

Any technology.

## Description

The objective of this failure condition is to avoid the use of ASCII art when a text alternative is not provided. Although ASCII art is implemented as a character string, its meaning comes from the pattern of glyphs formed by a visual presentation of that string, not from the text itself. Therefore ASCII art is non-text content and requires a text alternative. Text alternatives, or links to them, should be placed near the ASCII art in order to be associated with it.

## Examples

### ASCII Art chart without a text alternative

The following ASCII art chart lacks a text alternative and therefore does not meet Success Criterion 1.1.1. Note this failure example does in fact cause this page to fail, but you may skip over the example.

      %   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
    100 |             *                             |
     90 |                *  *                       |
     80 |          *           *                    |
     70 |             @           *                 |
     60 |          @                 *              |
     50 |       *        @              *           |
     40 |                   @              *        |
     30 |    *  @              @  @           *     |
     20 |                                           |
     10 |    @                       @  @  @  @     |
          0  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70
          Flash frequency (Hz)

## Tests

### Procedure

1. Access a page with ASCII art.
2. For each instance of ASCII art, check that it has a text alternative.

### Expected Results

- If check #2 is false, then this failure condition applies and the content fails this Success Criterion.

## Related Techniques