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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 710537
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Closed: May 2017
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OS: Android , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug
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Inconsistent behavior with screen readers reading file names of images with empty alt text

Project Member Reported by lpalmaro@chromium.org, May 2 2017

Issue description

OS: Mac OS

When an image has alt="", the behavior is different depending on the screen reader and browser combination. Empty alt text is expected to be ignored by screen readers, but VoiceOver/Chrome, Talkback/Chrome, and ChromeVox Next read out the file name. Looks like the accessibility tree in Chrome exposes the AXDescription as the filename

That said, VoiceOver/Firefox reads out "image"; and VoiceOver/Safari, JAWS/Chrome, and NVDA/Chrome behave as expected.
 
Mergedinto: 710537
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)

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