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[Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps you have answered your own question :).

I don't know what the best solution is, just that it's wrong at the
moment.  <h1> should never be empty! (even if later styled by CSS).

That said, I'm looking at the vanilla Firefox about:startpage at the
moment.  (Not deliberately; I just seem not to be using ubufox).  The
source code doesn't include any <style> elements or attributes, and the
images stay visible after View->Page Style->None.  It uses <img> tags.
If you look at the javascript (chrome://browser/content/aboutHome.js),
you'll see how they populate the img src & alt attributes.  It looks
reasonable enough to me.

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Title:
  about:startpage: Missing alt text on "Google" image

Status in Ubuntu Start Page:
  Incomplete
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Noticed while using a screen-reader - using "1" to skip to the level 1
  header - it reads "link heading level 1", and nothing else.

  It's image that says Google, it's used as the level 1 heading, and it
  acts as a link to google.com.  It should probably have an alt text of
  "Google" :-).

  That would also fix the appearance when "load images automatically" is
  disabled (preferences -> content).  A bit like the screen-reader, it
  leaves you with less information that you should have - and also the
  image is still there, as a link, so you get a mysterious patch of
  white space that turns out to be a link if you move the cursor over
  it.

  I think there are other possible improvements as well.  There would
  ideally be a label associated with the search text box, which the
  screen reader would read to provide some context.  You probably don't
  want just "Google"; you want to say "Google search".  (ARIA hint:
  aria-labelled-by="id-of-google-image id-of-search-button" sounds
  cool).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jun 28 11:40:57 2011
  FirefoxPackages:
   firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
   flashplugin-installer N/A
   adobe-flashplugin N/A
   icedtea-plugin N/A
  ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-19 (8 days ago)

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