From b9ca9884067449346004b351011bac34c8209eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daragh King <daragh.king@genesys.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:01:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(icon): added img role to svg
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added img role to svg

✅ Closes: COMUI-3359
---
 .../src/components/stable/gux-icon/gux-icon.tsx                 | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/genesys-spark-components/src/components/stable/gux-icon/gux-icon.tsx b/packages/genesys-spark-components/src/components/stable/gux-icon/gux-icon.tsx
index 2e21052555..1eaed593b3 100644
--- a/packages/genesys-spark-components/src/components/stable/gux-icon/gux-icon.tsx
+++ b/packages/genesys-spark-components/src/components/stable/gux-icon/gux-icon.tsx
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ export class GuxIcon {
   private getSvgWithAriaAttributes(svgText: string): string {
     const svgElement = new DOMParser().parseFromString(svgText, 'image/svg+xml')
       .firstChild as SVGElement;
+    svgElement.setAttribute('role', 'img');
+
     if (this.decorative) {
       svgElement.setAttribute('aria-hidden', String(this.decorative));
     } else {