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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Nov 8, 2004 8:37AM








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>;Where I was impressed by the use of the alt
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Hello All,
Some issues I noticed :
1. What do you think about prefix like picture of
and photo of in alt text? I think they are unnecessary and
add to verbosity. For JAWS users, images are announced as graphics
anyway.
If there are just one or two images on
a page it is passable but when one needs to listen to the prefix
repeatedly on a page / site, it becomes a problem.
2. On this page there are image links
prefixed in this fashion. The alt should really be saying where the
link leads to.
3. I have always been suggesting to FS that
title and alt should be spoken by default if they are different but this
has not been implemented. In fact title and label or whatever should be
spoken if different. This option is available for form controls though not by
default. Else users need to keep checking if title is
defined. And users who do not know HTML will not know what to
do.
4. Again on this page, title has been set on a
div element which is not announced by JAWS. JAWS speaks title on just a
few elements. WinEyes also speaks it on form element, list element etc.

5. Although div is regarded as a structural
element, screen readers do not announce it.
Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer Deque
Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, 4th Floor, Reston VA
20191Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 E-mail: <A
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