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Re: UNLABELLED GRAPHICS/PHOTOS

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From: John Hicks
Date: Apr 19, 2011 6:03AM

Please ignore my reply, which was written before I had received the
important info about this!
So, it is part of the Login Procedure... can't get more critical than
that, that is for sure
good day

Le 19/04/2011 09:41, John Hicks a écrit :
> 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 :
>>
>> 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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