Al is correct; when JAWS encounters an image that is a link, it will read link TITLE and ignore the image's ALT-text if both are provided. If you are running JAWS, you can verify this behavior on a short test page. [1] I wasn't aware of this JAWS peculiarity until Al pointed it out. I'm curious to know whether anyone is formally keeping track screen-reader issues like this one. I asked Ian about this recently, and he passed the question on to the UA group but got only one response, I believe. [2] Jo [1] http://jomiller.com/jawstest/title.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001JulSep/0000.html At 11:50 -0400 8/19/01, Al Gilman wrote: > > >On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > > >> This does not mention links. >>> >>> If it is the case that alt should describe the image and title the link, do >>> we need to state this? > >For your site, Jonathan, you should do as Matt said especially because If I >Recall Correctly there is a bug in Jaws that will hide the link content if you >set a TITLE on it. So for the moment, _don't_ populate TITLE in A especially >on text links if you care about the Jaws users in your audience. -- Jo Miller jo@bendingline.comReceived on Sunday, 19 August 2001 12:34:03 GMT
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