Re: title/alt attribut keyboard accessibility

Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>

Aurélien Levy wrote [1]:

>> Is it possible to have something in the spec to say that the way of
>> rendering the content of the title/alt attribut must be non specific to
>> a certain type of pointing device or is it to the UAAG spec to say
>> something like that ?

Ian Hickson wrote [2]:

> Right now HTML5 doesn't say that user agents should do anything with this
> information. The non-normative rendering section will probably suggest
> current behaviour but hasn't been written yet. (Volunteer editors welcome;
> see the e-mail from earlier today.)

Related: Steve Faulkner's June 6, 2008 bug report "User Agent display
of title attribute content not defined":
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5807

Best Regards,
Laura

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/thread.html#msg131
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/thread.html#msg134

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Laura L. Carlson