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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Jul 16, 2016 12:47PM

Does the question honestly still remain?


Were you disagreeing with me, David, or were you explaining to Mike what
your personal settings happened to speak, with whatever screen reader
you happened to be using at the time?


There's no question in my mind, based on decades of both using a screen
reader and interacting with many many others who do. The answer is:
write alt text like you normally would write anything else, and try not
to make typos, like I see quite often (that's nothing
screen-reader-centric; it's just showing that you care about alt text as
much as you care about any other content you write for the web).


I assumed, Mike, that the stars (asterisks) were simply for illustration
purposes.


More than my two cents.

Jennifer



On 7/16/2016 10:03 AM, Mike Barlow wrote:
> Thanks David, so the question still remains should those types of
> punctuation be used in alt-text for images, or should simpler (but possibly
> longer) alt-text.
>
> On Jul 14, 2016 9:59 AM, "David Farough" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> With regard to the use of quotation and parenthesis when specifying alt
>> text, sometimes the use of parenthesis will cause a synthesizer to speak
>> the word, followed by the string contained within the parenthesis
>> without speaking the
>> parenthesis punctuation. sometimes the results are unpredictable.
>> in the alt text you quoted, see below: .
>> *Configuration dialog box with the "Next" button highlighted
>> (optionally you could simply press the enter key rather than clicking on
>> the "Next" button)*
>> I did not hear the quotes or parenthesis spoken. I did however hear
>> the asterisks as star.
>> A screen reader delivers this text as a single unit of text. The user
>> cannot examine this text unless they use a Braille display,, or are able
>> to view it on screen.
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> David Farough
>>
>> Coordonnateur de l'accessibilité des applications, Services intégrés de
>> gestion des TI
>> Commission de la fonction publique du Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> Tél: 819-420-8418 Télécopieur :
>> 819-420-8408
>>
>> Application Accessibility Co-ordinator, Corporate IT Management
>> Public Service Commission of Canada / Government of Canada
>> <EMAIL REMOVED> Tel: 819-420-8418 / Fax: 819-420-8408
>>
>>
>>
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