I am a Jaws user of version 10, soon to be of 11. I believe most Jaws
users, would expect the Tab key, to be the key to use, when filling out a
form. If, however, you wanted to make it a link, then these could be easily
found by a list of links.
Many thanks for your concern for screen reader users!
Vicky Vaughan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Despain, Dallas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:41 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] links containing both an image and text
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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