[JAWSLite] Re: help with a web site

Hello David,

There are several things you can do.

First, if you can get sighted help to identify what the links are, you can 
label them with Jaws. When you're on a link that reads with the image name, 
press insert-control-tab. You'll be in a dialog box where you can type the 
name you want Jaws to read when it encounters that link on that website. 
These settings are stored in your Jaws settings folder. This all works fine 
until the site author makes changes. LOL.

In terms of educating, I've found it helpful to actually instruct people 
what they need to do. It's one thing for us to complain that it doesn't work 
well with screenreaders, but sighted people often don't get it and don't 
know what to do to fix it. It works fine for them, right?

So, I looked at the code for the web page. I think the author used a site 
builder package and likely doesn't know how to edit the coding. But here's 
what to tell him.

For a screenreader to properly read a link, it needs to have an alt tag. If 
it doesn't have an alt tag, then it reads the source file name or image name 
associated with the link in hopes of giving you some useful information. 
That's what you're getting.

I picked a line from the code as an example. Turn on all punctuation as this 
has a lot of less than, greater than, quotation marks and slashes in it.:

<tr><td><a href="ministries.html"><img name="i25" 
src="sitebuilder/images/Home-8-inactive-26687.png" border="0" width="205" 
height="19" alt=""/></a></td></tr><tr><td><a

Near the end of this string is the code:
alt=""

You can see that this is an empty code because there is nothing between the 
two quotation marks. If the author puts text between the quotation marks, 
that's what a screenreader will read when you navigate to it. This text will 
also pop up for sighted users as they move their mouse over the image.

I can tell this is created by a site builder because you see that in the 
coding, and no real author would have this much unspace coding. Ug. If you 
want to view the code for yourself, Load the page in Internet Explorer, go 
to the View menu and press enter on Source.

Hope this helps.

Jean

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