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Re: JAWS 9 - Reading TITLEs of Links

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Mar 11, 2009 1:10PM

From: "David Ashleydale" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

>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?

Hi David,

That sounds suspiciously like IE default behavior (with respect to how it
behaves visually with Alt and Title attributes). Have you tried the same
test in Firefox?

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Al Sparber - PVII
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