TIL that aria-hidden makes alt text on images nuked even if you have it written in the HTML, which for images with links is a no-no for accessibility (i gotta revisit all my pages eventually)
I checked quickly, and seems that you could set the "hidden" instead: "The hidden attribute is new in HTML5 and tells browsers not to display the element. The aria-hidden property tells screen-readers if they should ignore the element." So what I'm getting from this is that "hidden" is for visual display and "aria-hidden" is direct note for screen-readers to ignore the thing completely.
I checked quickly, and seems that you could set the "hidden" instead: "The hidden attribute is new in HTML5 and tells browsers not to display the element. The aria-hidden property tells screen-readers if they should ignore the element." So what I'm getting from this is that "hidden" is for visual display and "aria-hidden" is direct note for screen-readers to ignore the thing completely.