Re: [orca-list] Orca and alt text for a web control

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

I don't know what "positioned correctly" means. An alt tag is just a tag 
witin the code for a form control. Like alt="phone number".



On 10/26/2017 05:10 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Are the alt tags positioned correctly on the form?  If the orientation 
> of those tags are wrong you will have no speech on many different 
> screen readers not just orca.  I found this out when I used to work 
> for the Navy.
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, John G Heim wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:41:32
> > From: John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>
> > To: orca <orca-list gnome org>
> > Subject: [orca-list] Orca and alt text for a web control
> >
> > Orca seems to ignore alt text for fields on a web form. Is that 
> > deliberate? Isn't that still the preferred way to have a screen 
> > reader describe a data entry field when a user tabs into it?
> >
> >
> >
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