[#SAK-11672] Accessibility: Image has non-descriptive label (Page Order Helper)

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Accessibility: Image has non-descriptive label (Page Order Helper)

Created: 25-Sep-2007 07:12 Updated: 23-Oct-2008 06:30

Component/s:

PageOrderHelper, Accessibility

Affects Version/s:

2.4.x

Fix Version/s:

None

Time Tracking:

Not Specified

Environment:

Windows XP, JAWS 8.0, Internet Explorer 6

Issue Links:

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This issue cloned as:

SAK-11673 Accessibility: Text edit field not accessible by tabbing (Messages)

This issue cloned from:

SAK-11671 Accessibility: Missing user alert (Page Order Helper)

2.4.x Status:	None
2.5.x Status:	None
2.6.x Status:	None

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Problem:

JAWS announces the full path of the image links, such as images/cancel and "images/save' on every page where tools are edited. Additionally, the picture of the light bulb (JAWS announces it as "images/light bulb") does not adequately describe that the tool can be hidden from normal users. Only after activating the light bulb image link can a JAWS user tell what the purpose of that link is.

Desired Behaviors:

The JAWS announcement "images/light bulb" would be changed to something that more adequately describes what clicking on the picture of the light bulb does.

Recommended Repairs:

The JAWS announcement "images/light bulb" would be changed to something that more adequately describes what clicking on the picture of the light bulb does.

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Joshua Ryan - 24-Oct-2007 23:08

I have yet to get my hands on JAWS, will it read off any other attributes other then image path? such as alt text?

The images used are part of the silk icon set, so renaming might be awkward.

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Michael Elledge - 25-Oct-2007 06:51

Hi Josh!

The solution is to provide an <alt> description for each of the images. JAWS reads the image path by default without an <alt> attribute present. Although it doesn't apply here, where the image is purely for decoration an <alt> description of double quotes (<alt="">) should be provided, which will cause JAWS to skip the image.

So, as an example, putting an <alt> tag like this might be appropriate for the light bulb image: <img="http://www.sourcewithgodawful.url" alt="Hide tool from view">.

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Joshua Ryan - 25-Oct-2007 23:35

In this case, all of these images are within anchor tags that now have descriptive title attributes including action and name of the item to receive the action, would using alt="" be better then basically repeating what's already in the title attribe of the parent? Or does JAWS read the title attribute?