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

Hi David,

You state that JAWS is reading out the title of the blog and then
"graphic", and that NVDA is doing the same. Well, that's what I'm getting
as well with NVDA.

Initially I thought about the extra quote marks - as others have. But might
it be that the alternate text of that image is actually the same as the
title of the blog post - 'My soul, my soul, must sing'? So it seems as
though JAWS is voicing the blog post title when it is in fact just reading
out what's in the alt attribute.

I'm not sure what CMS is being used with this site but this could have been
marked as the 'featured image' for this blog post, and that the CMS
automatically puts the blog post title as the alternate text for the
featured image. I've seen this happen in some WordPress sites and it
depends on how the WordPress theme has been constructed.

Regards
Graham Armfield
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 20:56, David Van Der Molen <dvm975@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>