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#32370 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)

Emojis in screen reader text?

Reported by:	pavelevap	Owned by:
Priority:	normal	Milestone:
Component:	General	Version:	4.2
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	close
Cc:		Focuses:

Description

Emojis (and their replacement images) should be part of screen reader text? For example in comments_popup_link() function it is post title. Generated output:

<a href="http://localhost/wordpress/src/emoji-%f0%9f%92%94/#respond">No Comments<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Emoji <img class="emoji" draggable="false" alt="

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emoji-in-screenreader-text.png (54.9 KB ) - added by dd32 11 years ago.

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Change History (5)

@dd32
11 years ago

Attachment emoji-in-screenreader-text.png added

#1 @dd32
11 years ago

Keywords close added

Your code was cut-off, as Trac doesn't support Emoji, uploaded a screenshot of it for you.

But this is correct / by design.

The reasoning is several fold:

When used as an alt tag for an image replacement, the emoji is copied instead (ie. when the browser doesn't support native emoji)
To replace it with the emoji name would require a several-MB mapping file between all the emoji's and their "descriptive title"
Screen readers will need to read the alt text of the emoji replacement (since they can't read the image)
Screen readers will need to adjust to read emoji's if they don't already support it

#2 @pavelevap
11 years ago

Thank you for explanation. So, maybe emoji should be stripped from screen reader text?

#3 @helen
11 years ago

Milestone Awaiting Review
Resolution → worksforme
Status new → closed
Version trunk → 4.2

Screen readers that haven't already adjusted need to do so. Stripping meaning from alt text seems wrong to me.

#4 @pavelevap
11 years ago

No problem. Screen readers are (or will) probably supporting it somehow, but I was not sure if it is OK, when they are displayed as emoji (in Alt text) and with replacement image as post title?

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