- From: Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:39:00 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: david poehlman > I'm talking about setting jaws html graphics to all not > visual graphics. I > have images suppressed in ie. Ok, got the wrong end of the stick there before. So, basically you've set JAWS to announce all graphics, not just the tagged ones? I did a test with JAWS 4.02 set to announce all graphics in HTML, and tried it on an image with an alt="***" as you suggested before...but interestingly, JAWS ignores the alt just the same way that it does alt="" or alt=" " in that particular mode, and just announces the filename. Only once I actually put some "normal" letter from the alphabet in the alt would it announce alt rather than the filename. In any case, it sounds like this is very dependent on user settings, and I'd posit that users are at least partially responsible for setting up their system in the way that works best for them. You consciously changed the HTML options in Jaws (although I can't seem to replicate the effect that you describe), which overrides any type of graceful hiding of purely visual fluff images (which, unless I misunderstand you, is the effect that you wanted to achieve in the first place). This does not, however, mean that using a null alt is a practice that should be abandoned (if that was what you were suggesting). Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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