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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Jun 3, 2008 7:10AM

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

Close Jennison, but not entirely accurate. If the label attribute is
absent but the title attribute is present JAWS will read the title by
default. This has been the case since at least JAWS 4. Window Eyes
demonstrates similar behavior. In JAWS, the verbosity settings can be
set to favor the title over the label, to read both, or to read which
ever is longer. This selection appears to be working correctly in JAWS
9 but did not work in JAWS 6. I am not sure exactly when the problem
was resolved. In JAWS 6, the screen reader stubbornly refused to read
the title if a properly marked up label was present. From a practical
standpoint this was not an issue, assuming that the labels were marked
up correctly and contained appropriate text.

Mike