- From: Michael S Elledge <elledge@msu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:30:37 -0500
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
That's great, John. Let me know what he says. Any other opinions out there about title tag text? Mike John Foliot wrote: > Michael S Elledge wrote: > >> This raises another question: Is there a technique or keystroke >> combination that a screen reader user can invoke on an ad hoc basis >> (i.e. as they are reading) that provides them with the longer >> description if the link phrase isn't sufficient? That would seem to be >> very useful and true to WCAG 1.0 intentions. >> > > Mike, > > In checking with my JAWS power user, he informs me that currently, this is > not available, although it may be included in the next version of JAWS. You > are right it would be useful. > > He and I had a brief conversation about this, and he suspects that most > users, even daily "power-users" rarely switch from the standard install > default, which is to read the ALT text only. There are a number of > different configurations however, so your mileage may vary. > > I quickly (very quickly) set up a test page (www.wats.ca/test1.html) which > he is going to run through and I will post his feedback shortly. > > JF > > > >
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