[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28861: No easy way to get alt text of custom header image

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#28861: No easy way to get alt text of custom header image
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 Reporter:  henry.wright  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes        |     Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  duplicate
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by sharonaustin):

 Strongly agree that adding an alt="" is a bad idea; my understanding is
 that with some screen readers, focus is lost if the alt atribute is empty.
 "If" people are relying on it to navigate home, then that is a problem.

 What I don't know: If the header is wrapped in an <a> element, does the
 link function over-ride, or get over-ridden, by the the empty alt
 attribute?

 For more background, see this:
 ".... The reason to use an empty ‘alt’ attribute is that this is a signal
 to the screen reader to skip over the image. When a screen reader comes
 across an image with an empty ‘alt’ attribute, it ignores the image: it’s
 as if the image was never there in the first place.."

 http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/alt_text.html

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