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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 423725
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2016
Cc:
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EstimatedDays: ----
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Image alt-text isn't displayed if image loading is disabled

Reported by sve...@gmail.com, Mar 26 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://brage.info/imgtest.html

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to settings -> advanced -> privacy -> images
2. Select "do not show any images"
3. Observe that alt-text is not shown for any images

What is the expected behavior?
If images are not loaded, alt-text should still be shown.

What went wrong?
Alt-text was not shown.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.87  Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.11.3
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

Works perfectly in Firefox.
 
Components: -Blink Blink>Image

Comment 2 by noel@chromium.org, Mar 29 2016

Mergedinto: 423725
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 3 by sve...@gmail.com, Mar 31 2016

I don't believe this is a duplicate. In this case the alt-text is *significantly* smaller than the size given, not larger.

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