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Re: Accessible Image Gallery

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Aug 8, 2012 2:52AM

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Sarah Ward < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thank you all for the advice on accessible image gallery topic. But I am still wondering about whether or not I should file a bug with JAWS and NVDA as they are not announcing the image change in the live region.

If you think they aren't following the spec, yes.

> Shouldn't they according to the spec announce alt text changes?

Hard to say without a minimal reproducible test case. I suggest
producing one anyway if you want to file a bug. Makes it a lot easier
for them to triage and fix.

http://sscce.org/

https://www.webkit.org/quality/reduction.html

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis