Re: suggestions for new roles and properties in ARIA next

Leif Halvard Silli, Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:00:29 +0200:
> James Craig, Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:59:23 -0700:
>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>> 
>>> Btw, when an <img> is the sole content of a link, then VoiceOver treats 
>>> it more or less as if it has role=text. (Because, in that case, the 
>>> fact that it is an image, isn't announced by VoiceOver - only its alt 
>>> text is read aloud, as link text.
>> 
>> You must've changed some settings. By default VoiceOver speaks, "link 
>> image <@alt>", but the output depends on the user's verbosity 
>> settings. 
  [...]
> no, there is zero announcement that the image is an image when it 
> corrus inside that link above.

Got the chance to try a new Mac that had never run VoiceOver before, 
and it behaved the same way I described above. This was on Mac OS X 
Snow Leopard.
-- 
Leif H Silli

Received on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 10:11:20 UTC