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Re: UNLABELLED GRAPHICS/PHOTOS

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From: John Hicks
Date: Apr 19, 2011 2:39AM

Are you sure that the screen reader needs to know about these graphics?
Sounds like they are neither functional nor information bearing to me.

Are they just background images and/or decoration?


Le 18/04/2011 09:48, Tania a écrit :
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> I came across a website that does not label graphics/photos with alt text. They used empty quote marks like this:
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> alt= ""
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> The graphics were positioned using CSS.
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> With the above combination, I found that
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> 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."
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> QUESTION:
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> 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 ?
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> thanks
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> tania
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