[JAWSLite] Re: help with a web site

Hi Jean;

Thanks for the info.  I have gaken your first step and labelled the 
links on the home page but these labels do not work after a link is 
pressed.    I will discuss the problem with the web master and I 
really believe he will fix it.

David Maynard

Franklin NC

dmaynard35@xxxxxxxxxxx



At Thursday 6/4/2009, you wrote:
>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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