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Firefox and NVDA only: Image buttons read incorrectly #2601

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Aug 17, 2012 · 2 comments
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Firefox and NVDA only: Image buttons read incorrectly #2601

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Aug 17, 2012 · 2 comments
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nvaccessAuto commented Aug 17, 2012 •
edited by jcsteh

Reported by HFP on 2012-08-17 15:55
It seems that NVDA favors the value of the image button over the alt text in Firefox 14 only. This is different from JAWS since it always favors the alt attribute. NVDA reads the alt attribute when using IE 8.

Below is a snippet of code showing the value and alt text of the image button:

<input name="EDIT" src="images/Edit.gif" value="0" tabindex="22" onclick="this.form.selectedContactIndex.value=this.value" class="edit-page" alt="Edit Contact Person Information" type="image">

For example, NVDA reads "0" for this button instead of the alt text of "Edit Contact Person Information"
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Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-08-28 05:38
Confirmed. This would need to be fixed in Firefox, as NVDA uses the name as exposed to accessibility APIs. However, using value like this is an authoring error. For image buttons, value is meant to specify alternate text as well. Nevertheless, I've covered this in MozillaBug:786163.

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dkager commented Jul 15, 2017

Closing as fixed based on the status of the Mozilla bug. Please reopen if I'm too hasty (and resurrect the code sample mentioned).

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