I had apparently not realised that emoji don't announce themselves as images at all, and just get read out as their Unicode name. Thanks @gerireid!

So much good advice in this article from today's HTMHell advent calendar (@matuzoManuel Matuzović):

htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/202

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