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From: November Samnee
Date: Jan 27, 2010 9:21AM

Mike -

I find it very interesting that ZoomText looks for the title attribute
instead of using the label element. Do you (or anyone else for that matter)
know of some good sources for that sort of information about ZoomText?

November Samnee



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Moore,Michael (DARS) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The reader in ZoomText has a lot of quirks, and does not support common web
> standards for accessibility. For example it does not support the label
> element, and gets its label information from the title attribute in the
> input instead.
>
> That being said, we have had very bad luck with the JAVA access bridge. We
> have had vastly different performance between systems with JAWS and the
> Access Bridge installed and have been unable to get the interactive elements
> to report or perform reliably when using a screen reader.
>
> Mike Moore
> (512) 424-4159
>
>
>