RE: Quicktips and JAWS

Hello John,
 
In the code of the page, right after the last text Jaws reads, is a strange
unclosed tag:
</&animations
 
It looks like someone did a bad copy-paste job. Because of this unclosed
tag, the page does not validate either. I hope somebody can fix it.
 
Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
WWW: http://www.heritas.nl


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From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of John M Slatin
Sent: donderdag 28 oktober 2004 21:50
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Quicktips and JAWS


I just visited the Quicktips page so I could get the text and incorporate
the tips in a presentation I'm giving tomorrow. Something odd is going on.
Here is a transcript of how JAWS 5.1 reads the page at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/#QuickTips:
 
Everything is just fine except that the "reference text" doesn't appear to
be something JAWS can find...
 
<transcript>
WAI-QuickTips

 

W3C logo

Web  Accessibility Initiative (WAI) logo

 

WAI Quick Tips Reference Card

 

Introduction |

Quick Tips |

Ordering |

Translations

 

Introduction

 

The following "

Quick Tips"

introduce key concepts of accessible Web design. Please note that these are
not complete guidelines, but only a memory prompt for concepts from the W3C

Recommendation

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

which include information critical to understanding and implementing the
Quick Tips. There is an easy-to-use

Checklist,

a detailed document describing

Techniques

for implementing the Guidelines, and a

Curriculum

which explains how to use the guidelines.

 

The Quick Tips were developed by the W3C/WAI

Education and Outreach Working Group,

and last updated in January, 2001. Information on other activities and
resources of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative is available on the

WAI home page.

 

Here is the current reference text of the Quick Tips in English:

 

QUICK TIPS TO MAKE ACCESSIBLE WEB SITES

 

For Complete Guidelines & Checklist: www.w3.org/WAI

List of 1 items

. Images & animations: </&ANIMATIONS.

list end

</transcript>


 
Is JAWS misbehaving? Or is the page misbehaving?
Thanks!
John

"Good design is accessible design." 
John Slatin, Ph.D.
Director, Accessibility Institute
University of Texas at Austin
FAC 248C
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Austin, TX 78712
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email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu
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