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Accessibility issue: alt text is useless if image is display:none #42

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Dan503 opened this issue May 13, 2015 · 0 comments
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Accessibility issue: alt text is useless if image is display:none #42

Dan503 opened this issue May 13, 2015 · 0 comments

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Dan503 commented May 13, 2015

Screen readers are able to trigger Javascript and read at least some css. When they come across things that are display:none, they skip over those elements.

So even though you put alt text on your images, since the image gets display:none the text wont be read by screen readers.

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