Comment by felixfbecker

If only this was accessible. All a screen reader will announce is "image" plus the alt text, you cannot navigate any of the text inside the SVG when it's embedded with <img>. I was always surprised that noone ever talks about this with regard to SVG badges in readmes. You can if it's embedded with <object> or <iframe> though, but GitHub doesn't allow that in markdown (just like they don't allow many useful things like <video>, forcing people to use GIFs instead). <iframe> actually being the more secure option here because you can disallow all scripts using <iframe sandbox> (and GitHub could easily enforce that). <iframes> still can't stretch to the content though without using JS even in 2020.