[Avatar]: decorative property should be supported
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
Yes. In some cases Avatar is just used for decorative purpose and should be ignored by accessibility tools.
For example: Avatar user name is shown in text beside the avatar, In this case Screen reader will read user name from text and also from Avatar accessibleName as shown below
Describe the solution you'd like
Provide decorative property like : https://ui5.sap.com//#/api/sap.m.Avatar%23controlProperties
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
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Research direction
The request concerns the Avatar component's public API and accessibility behavior; start by locating its TypeScript implementation and existing accessibility tests. Verify how decorative usage should affect announcements, then add the property and tests showing that an avatar is ignored when equivalent user-name text is present.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100