RE: WCAG-ISSUE-20 (David): JAWS and NVDA now read the link text AND the title contents by default [HTML & ARIA Techniques TF]

In my tests, JAWS and NVDA only announced the @title as the accessible
description when tabbing to the links.  It is not announced when arrowing
to them, pressing, u, in say all, or when insert+f7 is pressed in IE or
FF.  So, given the limited support I think we should leave the comment in
but explain the current support level.



Jonathan





*From:* David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
*Sent:* Friday, May 23, 2014 3:58 PM
*To:* James Nurthen; WCAG
*Subject:* Re: WCAG-ISSUE-20 (David): JAWS and NVDA now read the link text
AND the title contents by default [HTML & ARIA Techniques TF]



Hi James



Yes, you are right. That is what is happening. So I think we can delete
that line in H33 now.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-aapi/#a-element






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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
wrote:

Doesn't the accessible description calculation say to use title for the
description if it was not used in the Name calculation. Are you sure this
is not what is happening?




On May 23, 2014, at 6:20 AM, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working
Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> WCAG-ISSUE-20 (David): JAWS and NVDA now read the link text AND the title
contents by default [HTML & ARIA Techniques TF]
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/track/issues/20
>
> Raised by: David MacDonald
> On product: HTML & ARIA Techniques TF
>
> H33 user agent notes says "Current user agents and assistive technology
provide no feedback to the user when links have title attribute content
available."
>
> Testing with both JAWs and NVDA seem to provide title fine now in
addition to link text, even though the accessible name calculation says it
should be either/or... I think this line can be deleted
>
>
>
>