Textaloud is reading all css in webimages

[andrewbell]

when text aloud is reading a webpage it will read the entire syntax when it gets to an image, it will say its width height code etc...is there any way to create a filter or rule to dissable this

[Jim Bretti]

Are you seeing this issue in the extension for Chrome? If the page does not require a login, Is is possible to send a link to a page so I can give it a try myself? You can post here or email me at jim@nextup.com

[andrewbell]

Hi Jim heres an example page, but i have tried multiple sites and this issue keeps coming up it gets to an image then spends 20 seconds reading through all the css

https://ahrefs.com/blog/video-seo/

heres a screencast i took
https://www.screencast.com/t/a2AT6hf8p29Y

[Jim Bretti]

Thanks for the example Andrew, the extension is simply not excluding html image tags. I'll look at fixing this, but I think you should be able to work around the problem for now using a TextAloud pronunciation dictionary entry. Go to the TextAloud main window, and from the main menu click Control Center -> Pronunciation Dictionary Maintenance.

Then create a pronunciation dictionary entry that filters html image tags like this:

Set the Text Matching dropdown to "Regular Expression", and for the expression, use this:
<img.*?>

Then set the Pronounce Using dropdown to "Skip Text".

That seems to work when I try it here, let me know if this doesn't work for you.

[andrewbell]

sorry for late reply but wanted to say this workaround worked great.