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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Jul 11, 2012 12:38PM

Anthony, if you have some working pages that you'd like tested with speech recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking, v. 11), let me know. I'd be happy to try them out. To date, I find radio buttons and check boxes both far more usable than drop-down menus (which I've never successfully navigated), and it'd be helpful to know what the formatting techniques are that are being used, so that I can pass them along to developers.

Gary M.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Olivero [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Radio Buttons in a Data Table

I'll have to retest with NVDA (and someone else will have to speak to Window-Eyes), but it never has been read when I've used JAWS. Though the last time I did test this, title wasn't read by default. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if someone else has more current info.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Ashleydale [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 17:33
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Radio Buttons in a Data Table

"Title is a possibility, but you will have to instruct screen access software users to (and possibly how to) adjust their preferences to read this attribute as it is not a default in most programs."

I thought TITLE was not read by default on links, but it is on form fields like radio buttons.

David