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Re: client using title instead of alt on image.

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From: Waltenberger, Lon (LNI)
Date: Apr 5, 2010 6:15PM

The last time I checked screen readers either ignored titles altogether or by default. The version of JAWS I used would, with a non-default setting, read either the link text or the title text, not both. If it was set to read the title text and there was no title attribute then it'd read the link text.

And you can add to the list of sighted folks having problems with title text just about everybody with eyes more than 40 years old.

We gave up on the title attribute years ago.