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Re: Verdict on TITLE attributes for screen readers (WAS

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Sep 21, 2004 12:46PM

> I have repeatedly suggested to Freedom Scientific that JAWS should
> read the title attribut on any element especially if it is different
> from the attribute that is read by default.

Ah, well, if lobbying FS to fix their browser is anything like lobbying MS
to fix there's, I suppose we shouldn't get our hopes up.

It sounds like the major readers do NOT read the title attribute of a link.
Does anyone know what USERS of these screen readers do? This would seem to
be a common problem on a lot of web sites. Is this an option that users of
screen readers would tend to actively set so that their reader DOES read
title attributes?

(This does seem like a ridiculous thing for the screen readers to not read
by default...they're basically ignoring an attribute specifically designed
to increase accessibility.)

-Darrel