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From: Tania
Date: Apr 18, 2011 1:51AM

I came across a website that does not label graphics/photos with alt text. They used empty quote marks like this:

alt= ""



The graphics were positioned using CSS.

With the above combination, I found that

1.. JAWS do not identify the graphics at all when navigating with arrow keys.
2.. Clicking on the graphic with a mouse and invoking the JAWS 'LABEL GRAPHIC function' produced message that said "the cursor is not positioned on a graphic."


QUESTION:

In such an instance, other than asking the website to rectify codes in their webpage, how else can screenreader users get label for the graphics ?



thanks

tania