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Re: Screen reader interpretations of images in text (not part of a link)

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 7, 2012 10:12AM

To clarify
setting alt to "" (without widespace) causes all screen readers I have
tested to ignore it.
The problem crops up if you put widespace inside the quotes (NVDA
recognizes the picture and reads "graphic", I did not indicate it in
the attached file, I may expand upon this and create a table of screen
readers and browsers with responses).
But if alt text is absent altogether, that's the surprising thing, and
I thought, looking at WCAG, that screen readers should read the
filename of the image file or at least add the word "graphic" to
indicate the presence of an image.
I use all default settings btw, except setting Jaws verbosity to intermediate).


On 5/7/12, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>Is this something everybody knows and I just discoverred?
>>-B
>
> I always thought that screen readers would read the image filename in the
> absence of a specified alt attribute as well. And I thought that an alt
> attribute set to empty quotes, would ignore the image altogether. (My
> experiences comes from what I read).
>
> Angela French
> > > >