[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 156774] AX: SVG images are not exposed in the AX api

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156774

--- Comment #15 from Joanmarie Diggs (irc: joanie) <jdiggs at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to comment #14)

> To my understanding, when author provides some semantic content on the svg
> root parent, he's intention is to make the entire group accessible,
> otherwise he should just label the individual children. Maybe to make my
> scenario more reasonable, I think we can say when the svg parent has a
> semantic description and there's no other accessible children in it, we
> should expose the shape.
> 
> Let me know what you think. Thanks!

If we do that, we'll expose the shape which has no useful information. All ATs will get is a nameless, descriptionless, helptextless object with a role of AXImage. As a result, the screen reader user will just hear "image."

I think hearing "image" without any indication whatsoever about what the image is offers no valuable information to the user. It's just noise. It's like an HTML 'img' element without an 'alt' attribute.

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