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From: Karen Sorensen
Date: Thu, Feb 02 2012 1:57PM
Subject: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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Hi Everyone,
Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a JAWS
setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.
Karen
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Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
www.pcc.edu/access
Portland Community College
971-722-4720
From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Thu, Feb 02 2012 3:24PM
Subject: Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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Karen - is your alt in the title field or description field? It needs
to be in description.
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Ryan E. Benson
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Karen Sorensen < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
> for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a JAWS
> setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
> Thank you.
> Karen
>
> --
> Karen M. Sorensen
> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
> www.pcc.edu/access
> Portland Community College
> 971-722-4720
>
From: Priti
Date: Fri, Feb 03 2012 2:21AM
Subject: Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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Hi Karen,
Are you using JAWS 12? If yes, it will read the image as "/" instead of the
image alt when read using the Down Arrow key. It seems to be a bug as JAWS
12 reads the image alt correctly when accessed using the quick nav key "G"
or by pressing "Ctrl + Up/Down" to navigate between paragraphs.
Would be interesting to know how JAWS 13 reads image alts in Word 2010
documents. Have not tried, would love to hear from any one else has tried
the same on the list.
Ryan this happens even if the alt is specified in the description field.
Hope this helps...
Thanks & Regards,
Priti Rohra
Accessibility Consultant
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pritirohra
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/priti-rohra/10/8a6/788
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From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:48 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
Karen - is your alt in the title field or description field? It needs to be
in description.
--
Ryan E. Benson
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Karen Sorensen < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
> for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a
> JAWS setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
> Thank you.
> Karen
>
> --
> Karen M. Sorensen
> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland
> Community College
> 971-722-4720
>
From: Karlen Communications
Date: Fri, Feb 03 2012 4:15AM
Subject: Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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JAWS 13 was reading both attributes which meant that the known bug of
reading "slash" was fixed but I just checked in a document with a lot of
pictures and JAWS wasn't reading either, it was reverting to the bug of
reading "slash."
So the bug is back in JAWS 13.
Cheers, Karen
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From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Priti
Sent: February-03-12 4:24 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
Hi Karen,
Are you using JAWS 12? If yes, it will read the image as "/" instead of the
image alt when read using the Down Arrow key. It seems to be a bug as JAWS
12 reads the image alt correctly when accessed using the quick nav key "G"
or by pressing "Ctrl + Up/Down" to navigate between paragraphs.
Would be interesting to know how JAWS 13 reads image alts in Word 2010
documents. Have not tried, would love to hear from any one else has tried
the same on the list.
Ryan this happens even if the alt is specified in the description field.
Hope this helps...
Thanks & Regards,
Priti Rohra
Accessibility Consultant
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pritirohra
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/priti-rohra/10/8a6/788
-----Original Message-----
From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
[mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:48 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
Karen - is your alt in the title field or description field? It needs to be
in description.
--
Ryan E. Benson
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Karen Sorensen < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
> for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a
> JAWS setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
> Thank you.
> Karen
>
> --
> Karen M. Sorensen
> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland
> Community College
> 971-722-4720
>
From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Fri, Feb 03 2012 8:51PM
Subject: Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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Karen,
probably you might added title and opened the document in previous
versions of office.
Description is backword compatible awhich matches with alt text when
you opened the same document in earlier versons of office.
if you add a Title in Office 2010 and open the document in an earlier
version, the Title is lost. Similarly, current third-party tools that
export or convert Office documents (such as the Save as DAISY Add-In
for Microsoft Word and LecShare, which converts PowerPoint to
accessible HTML) utilize only the Description field, not the Title
field.
Therefore, my recommendation is:
Add alt text to the Description field. Leave the Title field blank.
On 2/3/12, Karlen Communications < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> JAWS 13 was reading both attributes which meant that the known bug of
> reading "slash" was fixed but I just checked in a document with a lot of
> pictures and JAWS wasn't reading either, it was reverting to the bug of
> reading "slash."
>
> So the bug is back in JAWS 13.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Priti
> Sent: February-03-12 4:24 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
>
> Hi Karen,
>
> Are you using JAWS 12? If yes, it will read the image as "/" instead of the
> image alt when read using the Down Arrow key. It seems to be a bug as JAWS
> 12 reads the image alt correctly when accessed using the quick nav key "G"
> or by pressing "Ctrl + Up/Down" to navigate between paragraphs.
> Would be interesting to know how JAWS 13 reads image alts in Word 2010
> documents. Have not tried, would love to hear from any one else has tried
> the same on the list.
>
> Ryan this happens even if the alt is specified in the description field.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Priti Rohra
> Accessibility Consultant
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pritirohra
> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/priti-rohra/10/8a6/788
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:48 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
>
> Karen - is your alt in the title field or description field? It needs to be
> in description.
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Karen Sorensen < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
>> for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a
>> JAWS setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
>> Thank you.
>> Karen
>>
>> --
>> Karen M. Sorensen
>> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland
>> Community College
>> 971-722-4720
>>
From: Karlen Communications
Date: Sat, Feb 04 2012 4:54AM
Subject: Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
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I only work with Office 2010 and DOCX documents. I also only use the description field but created a document to test with JAWS 13 for Karen's slash issue. I know this is a known bug in previous versions of JAWS and Word.
I looked at some of my books, ones I wrote using Word 2010 and, where JAWS 13 had previously been reading the description, it now isn't. So, the bug of reading slash when encountering images with or without alt text seems to be back.
I also find that this bug is not consistent. Sometimes the alt text is read if you do a SayAll, but this too is hit and miss and not reliable.
Cheers, Karen
Out of Office, Sent from my iPad
On 2012-02-03, at 10:51 PM, Jeevan Reddy < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Karen,
> probably you might added title and opened the document in previous
> versions of office.
> Description is backword compatible awhich matches with alt text when
> you opened the same document in earlier versons of office.
> if you add a Title in Office 2010 and open the document in an earlier
> version, the Title is lost. Similarly, current third-party tools that
> export or convert Office documents (such as the Save as DAISY Add-In
> for Microsoft Word and LecShare, which converts PowerPoint to
> accessible HTML) utilize only the Description field, not the Title
> field.
> Therefore, my recommendation is:
> Add alt text to the Description field. Leave the Title field blank.
>
>
> On 2/3/12, Karlen Communications < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> JAWS 13 was reading both attributes which meant that the known bug of
>> reading "slash" was fixed but I just checked in a document with a lot of
>> pictures and JAWS wasn't reading either, it was reverting to the bug of
>> reading "slash."
>>
>> So the bug is back in JAWS 13.
>>
>> Cheers, Karen
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Priti
>> Sent: February-03-12 4:24 AM
>> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
>>
>> Hi Karen,
>>
>> Are you using JAWS 12? If yes, it will read the image as "/" instead of the
>> image alt when read using the Down Arrow key. It seems to be a bug as JAWS
>> 12 reads the image alt correctly when accessed using the quick nav key "G"
>> or by pressing "Ctrl + Up/Down" to navigate between paragraphs.
>> Would be interesting to know how JAWS 13 reads image alts in Word 2010
>> documents. Have not tried, would love to hear from any one else has tried
>> the same on the list.
>>
>> Ryan this happens even if the alt is specified in the description field.
>>
>> Hope this helps...
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Priti Rohra
>> Accessibility Consultant
>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pritirohra
>> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/priti-rohra/10/8a6/788
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
>> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:48 AM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text
>>
>> Karen - is your alt in the title field or description field? It needs to be
>> in description.
>>
>> --
>> Ryan E. Benson
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Karen Sorensen < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> Can anyone tell me why a MS Word document 2010 is suddenly reading "slash"
>>> for all of my image alt attributes? I can't figure it out. Could be a
>>> JAWS setting that I messed with. Anyone have any ideas?
>>> Thank you.
>>> Karen
>>>
>>> --
>>> Karen M. Sorensen
>>> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland
>>> Community College
>>> 971-722-4720
>>>