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Re: JAWS 9 - Reading TITLEs of Links

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Mar 12, 2009 4:40AM

Hi paul,

a small study i did some years back:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/articles/WE05/survey.html

indicated that of the users surveyed used the default settings, so did
not get the title attribute content.

regards
steve

2009/3/12 Paul Collins < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> I'm wondering how many screen reader users actually turn that function on, or stick to the default? Would have been a great question for the WebAIM Screen Reader Survey.
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> I still avoid using titles for that reason - if I add important information in the title area, I assume it won't be read out by the majority of assistive software users.
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> Does anyone know the stats on this?
> Cheers
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