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Re: JAWS 9 - Reading TITLEs of Links

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From: Randall Pope
Date: Mar 11, 2009 2:30PM

Hi David,

If you are using Firefox, that is probably the reason why. I personally
have never seen the title attribute display in Firefox, only in IE. But
then I'm not a JAW user.

So this bring up the question: Why use the title attribute?

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of David Ashleydale
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:04 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS 9 - Reading TITLEs of Links

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