SMRTR ProgrammingSep 17, 2025Daily.dev

CSS to speech: alternative text for CSS-generated content

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CSS's content property now supports alternative text for generated content, allowing developers to provide screen reader descriptions for CSS images and special characters. The syntax uses a slash after content values. While browsers properly expose alt text in accessibility trees, meaningful content should still be in HTML rather than CSS since CSS-generated content isn't searchable, selectable, or shown when images fail to load.

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