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Allow Octicon to take and render alt text
See original GitHub issueOur Octicon component doesn’t allow setting an alt text (for screen readers, and other accessibility technologies) via its props. Tackling some accessibility bugs requires that we implement this.
According to this somewhat outdated article you can do this by adding a title tag at the beginning of the svg block, which I think will work nicely with our current implementation.
The Octicon component prop should be called ariaLabel, as this is used by the octicons-react package’s components. This will ease our transition whenever we tackle #5185.
The Octicon component’s render method lives here:
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@outofambit I would like to pick this up. I still need to study what is currently going on, but I always approve of accessibility improvements! Need alerts anywhere else?
@lisavogtsf thanks for picking this up. We can talk more about the changes over in #6848! 🎉