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From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Mar 15, 2024 12:04PM

Hi All,

I recently upgraded my iPhone to iOS 17.4 and discovered that VoiceOver now
is speaking characters that should be silent. I am wondering if others have
noticed something like this, or perhaps I should use a different technique.

On buttons that control popup menus, I use the following CSS property:

content: "↓" / "";

The last part of that statement should cause the “down arrow” character to
be treated as null alt text. But VoiceOver speaks it as regular text.
Previous versions of VoiceOver and Safari did not do this.



Jeff Gutsell





Any suggestions?