Thanks for the great advice Vicky. -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Victoria Vaughan Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:10 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] links containing both an image and text
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" <ddesp...@rightnow.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> 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 > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
