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Re: alt attributes and language
From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jan 5, 2012 10:00AM
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Sounds like a bug to me...
Jaws 13 reads the ALTs in the correct designated language, for example.
Although on this page, the ALT labels "Wikimedia Foundation" &
"Powered by Mediawiki" are in English, so the "bad" NVDA behavior is
correct 2 out of 3 times. :)
Patrick
At 06:53 AM 1/5/2012, Michelangelo Iaffaldano wrote:
>I browsed a few pages that have correct lang attributes (for example
>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_principal) in
>NVDA. I was surprised to discover that, while text is pronounced
>correctly, alt attributes are voiced in the default - and therefore
>incomprehensible - English voice. Is this common behaviour among
>screen readers?
>
>Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Toronto
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