roledescription is new for ARIA 1.1 and so the ATs really have not used it yet. That said we can work with them to ensure that they don’t say anything. net net. That should be doable. It is a great suggestion by Jason and it would avoid having another role. Rich > On Jun 29, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote: > > [Jason] Couldn’t you do this in ARIA 1.1 with aria-roledescription=””, thereby suppressing presentation of the image role by the screen reader? > > > I'm okay with recommending that the img role continue to be used for text-as-graphics, but I'm curious about Jason's suggestion of an empty role description value. Has anyone tested whether that actually works and makes sense when exposed by a screen reader? > > This wouldn't affect anything in ARIA 1.1, but would affect authoring guidance. >
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