Re: Jaws Not Reading Alt-Text That's in a Graphic

Hi David,

I spotted what I thought was the problem, the HTML has incorrect or likely problematic declaration for the value of the ALT attribute.

The ALT attribute for the image is

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Double quotes open

My soul, my soul, must sing!

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So I thought that would be the problem (it surely must be), but my NVDA is apparently reading it out OK anyway..?

Perhaps old NVDA has a problem, and JAWS, and the latest NVDA is somehow able to deal with the incorrect code.

Regards,

Alan
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Alan Bristow ( he / him / il )
Web Developer / Développeur Web
Elections Canada / Élections Canada
alan.bristow@elections.ca
+1 873-416-1175

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Hi everyone.

I am a totally blind registered Jaws user. The CEO of the organization
for which I work publishes a blog. He's told me that he has completed
the alt-text field for the image that's in the post at the following link:

https://www.cccc.org/news_blogs/john/2010/11/30/my-soul-my-soul-must-sing/

When I get to the graphic, Jaws reads the title of the post, and then
says "graphic."

I'm using the latest build of Jaws 2023. I've also tried NVDA, and I get
the same result. I'm running Windows 10 and am using Firefox and Chrome.

Is there something wrong with the way the alt-text is inserted into the
blog post? Is there a setting in Jaws that I need to check, so that the
alt-text is read?

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

Regards,

David Van Der Molen

Received on Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:44:56 UTC