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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.

Regards,
Léonie.

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