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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Mar 11, 2009 1:05PM

I just did a little JAWS 9 test and I discovered that JAWS won't read the
TITLE attribute of a link if the link contains an image -- even if I've
configured JAWS to read link TITLEs instead of link text.

When I replaced the image with text and asked JAWS to read it to me, it read
the TITLE of the link. I put the image back in and it read the ALT attribute
of the image.

It seems to me that if I've specifically configured JAWS to only read link
TITLEs to me, it should do so regardless of what the link contains.

Is this a known JAWS 9 bug? Does anyone know if this is fixed in JAWS 10?

Thanks,
David Ashleydale