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Re: Do screen readers read title attribute if there is no label tag on form elements?

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From: Michael.Moore@dars.state.tx.us
Date: Apr 20, 2011 11:42AM

Thanks Jason, that is good news. Now we just have to figure out why ZT is still not reading labels in our environment. Would you mind telling me what OS and browser you are using? Also, on a related note the last ZT update broke from field tracking on PDF forms using reader 9 we have a ticket into AI Squared but no resolution yet. Have you experienced the problem? If you don't mind I could send you a form off line.

Michael Moore
(512) 424-4159

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Hi Mike,

I disagree with this claim. ZoomText 9.18 (with speech) does in fact read
form labels structured with label tags. I cannot comment about past
versions (or versions used in your organization) but this version I'm
using works well without title attributes.

Jason Megginson
SSB BART Group
(O):703-637-8964
(C):703-244-7755


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Do screen readers read title attribute if there is
no label tag on form elements?

One added piece of bit of information regarding the use of the title
attribute. The ZoomText screen reader does not support the label tag with
its speech output but it does read the title attribute.

Since we have a large number of ZoomText users among our staff we have
used both the title attribute and the label element when coding our
internal applications. The only risk of this approach is that some screen
readers can be configured by the user to read both the label and the title
and redundant information will be heard.

Mike Moore