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[spec] Clarify purpose of alt-text

Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com

Sun Feb 28 16:25:25 GMT 2021

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This is my main issue: screen readers *do not* skip the block. This willneed to be dealt with by the client, not the screen reader.

On 2/28/21 9:06 AM, Adnan Maolood wrote:

This would mean that should a screen reader encounter a preformatted text
block with a non-empty alt text, the alt text would be read aloud and the
preformatted block would be skipped. After all, that's what "alternative
text" is supposed to mean.