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		vulcan01 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Monosketch Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?

nasso_dev 10 days ago [–]

im not an expert on a11y best practices, but id say an <img> tag with alt text is enough

for inline SVG, i read somewhere you can use <title> and <desc> to describe the SVG document, but i don't know how they work in practice

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