Emojis in screen reader text?

[pavelevap]

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="

[dd32]

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

[pavelevap]

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

[helen]

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

[pavelevap]

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?