Attributes & IE/Firefox</h1> <p>Mike Adams — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:56:29 +0000</p> <p>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…</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The real fix here would be to add alt-text which should be picked up by default with JAWS 10 in Firefox.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> </article> </main></body></html>