This is part of a new feature called filter duplicate links, where if
JAWS sees a graphical link and a text link that points to the same
thing, it filters out the graphical link.
Chris Hallsworth
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On 03/02/2010 22:41, Despain, Dallas wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm a developer trying to make sure that our web-based products are as
accessible as possible. We have run into a discrepancy between jaws 10 and jaws
11.
The "problem" is that in jaws 11, when you use the tab key to focus on a link
that contains both an image and text (the image does have alt text) jaws only reads the
text, not the alt text of the image. However if you use the arrow keys to read the link,
both the alt text and link text are announced as expected.
If you'd like to see this in action, it can be observed in example 7 of the
following page by webaim.org: http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/#functional
The link in question reads "download the employment application" and also contains an
image with alt text= "sample image"
So my question for you is: is this a known issue? I'm assuming that since I
cannot reproduce this in jaws 10, this behavior must be new and unexpected but
common. I'm not exactly sure how we could fix it, since our HTML is correct.
Which is more common, the tab key or the arrow keys? Does this issue cause
problems for jaws users?
Thank you very much for any insight you could offer.
Sincerely,
Dallas Despain
RightNow Technologies
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