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Re: When "Alt" is not the semantically-correct representation of an image

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jul 27, 2018 7:56AM

Hi Steve,

>> But role="text" is not a
>> documented role (yet?).
>
> It was dumped from ARIA as there was not consensus on how it should be
> implemented.

Boo. Hiss. This should get another look.

Or… add an "ActualText" attribute to HTML 5.3.. :-)

Duff.