- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@unagi69.cnc.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:20:27 -0500 (EST)
- To: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, <wai-xtech@w3.org>
aloha, al!
you asked, quote:
> Somebody please confirm or deny this. Do screen readers
> actually skip images with @alt=""?
yes -- and here's some hard data for you....
in the HTML Options in JAWS configuration manager, for example, the
following settings have been available since 5.x -- note that a left
parenthesis followed by a space and then a right parenthesis indicates a
radio button (all of the options below, save for one edit box, are radio
buttons)
---- Begin JAWS HTML Graphics Options ----
Graphic Verbosity
( ) No Graphics
( ) Tagged Graphics
( ) All Graphics
Graphics Options
( ) Use Title
( ) Use Alt Attribute
( ) Use "OnMouseOver ToolTip"
( ) Use Longest
( ) Custom Search String
Define Graphic Option Search Order (edit box)
alt|title|src
Graphical Link Last Resort:
( ) Use Image's src
( ) Use Anchor's href
---- End JAWS HTML Graphics Options ----
gregory.
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Gregory J. Rosmaita, unagi69@concentric.net
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Received on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 15:20:49 UTC