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Re: Screenreader support for title....

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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Jun 3, 2008 5:20AM

Paul,

In terms of JAWS, the TITLE attribute is supported, however the
end-user must turn that option on (at least in JAWS V7.X), it is not
automatically read out-of-the-box.

Jennison

Jennison Asuncion
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Paul Collins wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering what the latest is on this? The title never used to be
> read out by JAWS, IBM and the like, although that was supposed to be
> changing. Does anyone have the latest on which popular screenreaders
> read out both the title and alt attribute?
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>