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From: Thad C
Date: Jul 16, 2016 3:05PM

Hi Mike,

In the use cases you provided I do not think you need quotes or
parentheses. In the second case I believe the phrase in parenthesis could
be written as a separate sentence instead of within parentheses and be
grammatically correct.

Best
On Jul 16, 2016 11:47 AM, "Jennifer Sutton" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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