Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Browser & Firefox & Internet Explorer
Written by: Mike Adams
I’ve run across a few issues and concerns lately that talk about JAWS reading the <Title> attributes in IE but not in Firefox. I had to spend a little time researching this one but here is the gist of it…
The fact that IE works is actually an old IE bug and some dumb luck. You’ll notice in IE that if there is only a title attribute it will be read by JAWS, if there is a title attribute and alt-text the alt-text is read by JAWS.
2. JAWS defaults to read alt and not Title attributes however this can be modified through the configuration manager…Set Options–>HTML Options–>Links–>Use Title; this will change your settings until you change them back which I don’t recommend but it is a good way to show that your code is working in this manner.
The real fix here would be to add alt-text which should be picked up by default with JAWS 10 in Firefox.
Just as another possibility you can do an about:config in Firefox and make sure browser.chrome.toolbar_tips is set to true or you won’t see the tool tips at all.
Long story short here is that we’ve all gotten so used to something not working right that we came to think of the behaviour as being correct. Bad on us.
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