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Re: Screenreader Combo Failing aria-labelledby

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 5, 2021 5:16AM

On 05/05/2021 12:12, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> How does just using the <title> element of the SVG work? That is the
> native way to provide text alternatives for SVG images (we've ditched
> them in favor of ARIA trickery due to lack of browser/screen reader
> support but I thought this was improving).

The issue with <title> in the <svg> is that in most (all?) browsers,
this also leads to a classic tooltip (like for the title="..."
attribute) when hovering over with the mouse, which most of the time is
undesirable.

P
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