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

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From: glen walker
Date: Jul 27, 2018 10:54PM

One other use, albeit it's a workaround for a VoiceOver feature, is to
prevent VoiceOver from stopping on every element if you want an entire
sentence to be read as one. JAWS and NVDA don't have this issue but
VoiceOver does. role="text" solves the problem for now.

We also had another problem with VoiceOver when creating accessible graphs,
and I can't remember the specific problem off the top of my head, but we
consulted with a high level accessibility person at Apple (I can provide
the name privately if needed) and we were told to use role="text" to fix
the problem. It worked great.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I have yet to
> see a convincing example where this role can be used for a purpose
> other than avoiding the word "graphic" to be added by a screen reader.
>
>