Remove Image Tooltips That Repeat the Alt Text
Removes the title attribute from images in your content when it is the same as the alt text, so screen readers do not read the same description twice.
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Code
add_filter( 'the_content', function ( $content ) {
if ( false === stripos( $content, 'title=' ) || ! class_exists( 'WP_HTML_Tag_Processor' ) ) {
return $content;
}
$tags = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $content );
while ( $tags->next_tag( 'img' ) ) {
$title = trim( (string) $tags->get_attribute( 'title' ) );
if ( '' !== $title && strtolower( $title ) === strtolower( trim( (string) $tags->get_attribute( 'alt' ) ) ) ) {
$tags->remove_attribute( 'title' );
}
}
return $tags->get_updated_html();
}, 20 );Notes
Titles that add different information are kept.
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