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Re: JAWS 11 and text + image link combination

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From: KINNUNEN, DANIEL
Date: Feb 3, 2010 4:30PM

Dallas, this is a "feature" in JAWS 11.

If you open the JAWS configuration manager, select Set Options, then
open HTML Options and go to the Links tab, you will see the first option
is "Filter Duplicate Links". That option is selected by default.

Begin JAWS help description ---

Select this check box so that JAWS only announces the text link when two
consecutive Web page links, typically a graphical link and text link,
point to the same URL. This check box is selected by default.

--- end JAWS help text.

The help text goes on to say that if you arrow through the text or if
you use Insert+F7 to list the links, you will hear both the text link
and the image alt text. (This part of the help text is somewhat
inaccurate, so I did not include it in the quote above.)

It seems that it might make more sense to ignore the alt text only if it
is the same as the link text... but it appears to be related to the
target URL instead.

Hope that helps,
Dan Kinnunen