Misleading information about inline SVG with Jaws

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Misleading information about inline SVG with Jaws #4

Closed LJWatson closed 7 years ago

LJWatson commented 7 years ago

In your article on accessible inline SVG it says:

"JAWS announces a link with an SVG assigned a role="img" as a "link graphic". This does not add anything to the semantics of the link."

This is correct behaviour. When you give something a role of "img" it is exposed as an image in the accessibility tree. To all intents and purposes, it is the same as an HTML <img> element. When Jaws encounters a link that contains a graphic, it announces it as "Graphical link".

haltersweb commented 7 years ago

Updated with the latest information