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Re: iframes and alt attribute

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 16, 2016 1:09PM

> You can use either. Both alt and title attributes can be used to give the frame an accessible name, which is the goal in this instance. The title attribute is more commonly used with frames though.

To my knowledge the alt attribute is not valid on an iframe. Alt is not a global attribute unlike the title attribute and other aria attributes. Perhaps this has changed or perhaps if the iframe was only an image resource had a role of img I could see this but otherwise this seems non-standard.

Jonathan