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From: Julie Romanowski
Date: Feb 4, 2010 5:09AM

Jared, what build are you using for JAWS 11? I'm using JAWS 11.0.756
32-bit
(http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/jaws-downloads.asp) and
testing with IE7, IE8 and Firefox 3.5.6, and JAWS is reading the text
and image alt text correctly.


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I am experiencing the same behavior in JAWS 11. This is a VERY
significant bug that will render MUCH web content inaccessible to JAWS
11 users.

I created several test cases and all show that if you have text and an
image with alt text within the same link, only the first of these items
within the link will be read by JAWS as you navigate by links
(tab) through the page. It will always ignore anything within the link
that comes after the first text item or the first image.

For example, this would render all properly coded "This link opens in a
new window" or "PDF File", etc. icons as inaccessible to users
navigating by links. If you had a product image and a product
description both within the same link, only the image will be
identified.

Interestingly, if you open the list of links (JAWS + F7), it displays
and reads the entire content of the link appropriately.

It does this in both Firefox and IE. This bug is not present in JAWS 10.

Daniel noted the "Filter Duplicate Links" option, but it has no effect
either way.

Could someone with connections inform Freedom Scientific of this.
Nobody from there is subscribed to this list, if you can believe that.

Jared Smith
WebAIM