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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Feb 4, 2010 5:39AM

"I'm using JAWS 11.0.756 32-bit... and testing with IE7, IE8 and Firefox 3.5.6, and JAWS is reading the text and image alt text correctly."

Is Jaws reading the link correctly when you tab onto it? Using one of the code examples Jared provided previously, I've run a few quick checks with Jaws 11.056 in IE8, FF3.5 and FF3.6 on an XP Pro 32bit machine.

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In each case the results appear to be the same. When tabbed onto, Jaws only reads the text part of the link. When given focus with the cursor keys, or viewed through the links list dialogue, Jaws reads both the text and alternative text elements of the link.

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Léonie.

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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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Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:41 PM
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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