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Re: NVDA: Showing Images That Have No Alt Text

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Mar 17, 2017 10:20AM

jp please remind me what that setting in jaws is

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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 6:14 AM, JP Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I am not a big NVDA user, but I don't think it has that capability. NVDA
> does not drill through the HTML tags of a DOM element like JAWS does. JAWS
> drills in-depth to try to get as much information to the user as possible.
>
> I know in JAWS you can switch that feature off. I do not recall seeing it
> anywhere in NVDA's settings.
>
> Why not use JAWS if you are testing to capture those images.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [WebAIM] NVDA: Showing Images That Have No Alt Textt
>
> Hi,
> My apologies for sending this, but I'm frustrated. I cannot seem to find a
> setting in NVDA that will make it show me images without alt text. I may
> have accidentally turned that off. It came up in my mind, because I
> happened to turn on JAWS and right away, I saw an image that had no alt
> text. I could tall this because I saw the file name and recognized it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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