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From: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL
Date: Mar 16, 2016 1:27PM

Dona,

Only a title is needed, additional markup including aria could be added, but a title is the must here.....



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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dona Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 2:36 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] iframes and alt attribute

Good afternoon,

We are having a discussion at work about using alt attributes in iframes (embedded videos) (in HTML5 pages).

Some folks are insisting that the alt attribute is included with every iframe. I've only ever heard that the title attribute is required.

The reason this is an issue is because the CMS makes it difficult to add the alt attribute, whereas the title attribute is automatically added.

So the question is this: is the alt attribute required for iframes?

Apologies if this has already been discussed. I did not search the archives.

Thanks,

Dona