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Re: Title Attribute (was Re: IMG with a caption?)

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 11, 2005 5:42PM

maryg wrote:
> Thank you for making this point, which is something I've been trying to
> convey to a client who is using exclusively because they claim that
> Netscape does not read alt text. Could it be that Netscape _does_ read alt
> text, but the screen reader they're using for testing is set to only read
> ?

At the risk of making a far too generalised statement, I was under the
impression that the majority of current screenreaders on Windows are
only tuned to integrate with IE. Any other combination would probably
yield unreliable results.

This is eerily similar to a recent discussion over at Accessifyforum
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2592

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Patrick H. Lauke
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