PRprezjordan·Jun 29, 2015
Thanks :) We've got an issue open for this - https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/issues/21, so hopefully coming soon.
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tota11y
an accessibility (a11y) visualization toolkit
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3 sourcesYou are absolutely correct in assuming that having alt-text on the image inside the link is accessible.
This is a known bug (https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/issues/1) that comes from upstream (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...) and will hopefully be fixed soon.
As for your notes on screen-reader text: you can "hide" it by not actually hiding it, but placing it off the side of the page. This will be picked up by screen-readers and will not cause any positioning issues.
We use the following snippet all over Khan Academy. Bootstrap 3 uses it as well.
.sr-only {
border: 0;
clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
height: 1px;
margin: -1px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 1px;
}
So I'd like to assure you that your image link is good to g
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o (assuming the alt-text is good!). Sorry for the troubles.
Good point – unfortunately, it doesn't look like htat's what the plugin here does:
https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/blob/952427485a49bde0f498e9d...
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...
Definitely a good feature request
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