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Re: Long URLs in HREFs

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From: Joel Ward
Date: Oct 30, 2002 2:22PM


> At 01:15 PM 10/30/2002, Mark Rew wrote:
> >Yes, These long urls will be a problem for Jaws. It would be more
meaningful
> >to put descriptive text in a alt- attribute. Maybe, copy what is in the
> >title= attribute.

Why are these long URLs a problem for JAWS? Doesn't JAWS read the link text
and not the HREF?


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