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March 18, 2026
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The alt-text is displaying when mouse hover the image. But, it should not display. How to fix it?

One of our customer doesn’t like the mouse hover display of alt-text. They want it to be disabled. How to fix it. 

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    johnhenry01
    Participant
    March 19, 2026

    Hi,

    The alt-text tooltip on hover usually comes from the “title” attribute rather than the alt attribute itself. If you want to disable the hover text, you can try removing the title attribute from the image or SVG.

    For Illustrator-exported assets, sometimes extra attributes get added during export, so it’s worth checking the SVG code and cleaning it up if needed.

    We ran into a similar issue with exported icons showing unexpected behavior on hover and noted it here:

    https://electricianpalmcoast.com/

    Hope this helps!

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    SivaQCAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 20, 2026

    Thank you, it is for the PDF and not for the web page.

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    JR Boulay
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2026

    You should read this answer: 

     

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    Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2026

    If you don’t need the accessibility at all, optimize the PDF (Save as Other...)

    Turn off every option except Discard Objects>Discard document tags.

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    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    SivaQCAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 20, 2026

    Accessibility in the PDF is mandatory requirement.

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 20, 2026

    Then, as far as I can tell, there is no way to disable it until Adobe issues an update.

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    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    Karl Heinz  Kremer
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2026

    I am not aware of a way to disable this. You can of course remove the alt-text (or mark the image as decorative), but that will destroy the accessibility of your document. Try to convince your customer that it is a good thing to have the alt-text there ;) 

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    SivaQCAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 18, 2026

    Thank you! Let me inform the customer if there is no option to disable it.

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