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SVG included in an img tag Including an SVG in an img tag is no different than including a regular image–always use an alt tag for SVGs that are important!
How do I add a link in SVG?
The simplest way to make a portion of an SVG clickable is to add an SVG hyperlink element to the markup. This is as easy as wrapping the target with an tag, just as you would a nested html element. Your tag can surround a simple shape or more complex paths. It can surround a group of SVG elements or just one.
Can SVG have href?
The a element is contained in the linking document (the local resource), and the href attribute points to the document or resource I want to link to (the remote resource). All very straight forward. In XML and therefore SVG, there is no magic href attribute that can create links.
Can screen readers read SVG files?
SVGs have a number of accessibility tags which can be used and read by screen readers to describe what the SVG is representing or is meant to show. There are also normal properties you can use which screen readers use to help identify an object such as role to specify what the SVG is used for (like an img ).
What do you need to know about SVG links?
Just like (X)HTML, SVG supports linking to content within the document and to external resources, for example other SVG documents, HTML or XML documents, images, videos or any other kind of typical resource you may want to link to.
Is it possible to put SVG in alt text?
Chrome sees the fallback content, so you could throw alt text in there, which would be a third (or fourth) place to store the same content. I recommended (based on browser/screen reader support) to use
Where does the title tag go in a SVG file?
If loading an SVG file (that is, not inline in HTML), the root-level tag will become the browser page’s title, which will be read by the screen reader.
How to link to a specific point in a document in SVG?
Using a value of replace specifies the default behaviour, while changing it to new will open the link in a new window or tab. Also like HTML, it is possible to link to a specific point in a document (both in local and remote documents) by specifying an id on the element you want to link to and adding a fragment identifier to the link.