[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!

[CLC4TTS]

> 1. At my urging, they changed the JavaScript rollovers to CSS (never
> mind that they named a class "alt"!), but JAWS reads a link such as
> <a href="subpage.php?section=who" ...> phonetically: "link
> subpafphsec" instead of the expected, "link who" or "link Who We
> Are".  Dolphin's HAL ignores the navigation altogether.
>   
For what it's worth, Fire Vox seems to read it as you would want. I hear:
"Link Who We Are", "Link Unity Summit", etc.

You may want to consider putting in some sort of skip to main content 
link so that people don't have to hear the navigation each time.

> 2. Although the navigation's now CSS, the code points to images
> located elsewhere (bold and italics added):
> Code:
> <td class="nav" colspan="2"><a href="subpage.php?section=who"
> class="nav1"><span class="alt">Who We Are</span></a></td>
> CSS:
> a.nav1 {
>          display: block;
>      width: 152px;
>      height: 60px;
>      background-image: url(images/who_we_are_full.gif);}
>
> Result:  JAWS reads the word "graphic" aloud.
>   
I wonder if this is a JAWS bug.

According to:
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_21_ignoring_spacer_images.html
and
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/images/alt_text.php
it seems like background images are supposed to be ignored...


-Charles

http://firevox.clcworld.net