I'm not completely sure about that. I have read the same page with both JAWS and WE, and often JAWS provided a more descriptive label. For example, when I was doing fantasy football on NFL.COM, there was a link that appeared next to a player's name if he was injured. A sighted person told me that there was a graphic of a red cross. JAWS identified it as "red cross" while WE read a series of numbers, letters, and punctuation.
Andy -----Original Message----- From: Farley, John [OS-IE] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:12 AM To: Steve Zielinski; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Suggestion for WE Improvement Hi I don't think that this is a screen reader issue. It is the author not using alt-tags correctly. If they did so, the words in the alt-tag would be read rather than the full text of the link. The screen reader will read that if that is the only thing it has. So, contact the authors. Regards, John. John Farley *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Zielinski Sent: 04 February 2011 16:06 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion for WE Improvement Good idea. I find I never use read to end on web pages, for instance, just because of those long tedious links. Rather, I down arrow as I read, and when I hear link, I immediately down arrow again to find real text. If there were a way to exclude links, buttons, etdc while reading with read to end, I'd use it much more. Of course, if one could select the types of missing links, excuse the pun, or say skip buttons while reading, or skip combo boxes, etc. that would make things much more flexible. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Gosselin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Suggestion for WE Improvement >I have just finished reading, actually I got sick of listening and quit, >another > of those newsletter-type things that are totally awash in links, very long > links! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to exclude the reading of those > links in > a document while in Read-to-end? I sure wish it were possible! Then, if I > were > curious, I could stop and explore for a link I thought might be there, and > only > then click on it without all that very annoying gibberish of letters, > numbers, > punctuation marks, odd symbols, Great God, sometimes they're right in the > middle > of a sentence! Lord have mercy! > > Louis Gosselin > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
