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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 27, 2002 12:39PM


Try: <img src="/images/transparentgif.gif" alt="Skip to content - Access key
8" border="0">

As for reading the TITLE attribute, I beleive that JAWS 3.x actually
defaults to the Title attribute, for example:

Go to the <.a href="link.html" Title="Go to the next page">Next page</a>
will actually be read aloud as "Go to {the go to the next page}"

this has caused me some grief in the past :(

JF
(I note you do not specify Height and Width attributes of your transparent
gif - is this deliberate?)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emma Jane Hogbin [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: March 27, 2002 2:24 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: Access Keys
>
>
> I've just added the following to the top of the first page of our
> new site....
>
> <a href="#content" title="Welcome to Career Matters. Many introduction
> pages have flash introductions. You may find the search engine easier to
> use. The search engine input box is Access Key 9. To skip to
> content on all
> pages use Access Key 8. This page contains a flash movie for content. Use
> the navigation or search engine to find a plain text page."
> accesskey="8"><img src="/images/transparentgif.gif" alt="Skip to content"
> border="0"></a>
>
> Subsequent pages have no title just the alt that says "skip to content."
>
> What do you think?
>
> Will the title on the link even be read aloud by a screen
> reader/aural browser?
>
> emma
>
>
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