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Re: Screenreader Combo Failing aria-labelledby
From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: May 5, 2021 9:44AM
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Are there any issues with inserting an SVG file as the source of an <img> and putting alt text on the image?
Jeff Gutsell
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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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