- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:18:12 +0000
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi all , while reviewing parts of the HTML5 spec, I have noticed that the title attribute is used many times on various elements , but the title attribute values are not phrases or sentences, usually they are a combination dash seperated abbreviations and words. Also quite often when used on a link they are a copy of the link text. This use does not seem to be conforming and while it dsoesn't bother me it may well cause undue cognitive noise for users who are exposed to the title attribute content. some examples form the hundred + uses on http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html: navigates Title: navigate XML document Title: XML documents fragment identifier Title: navigate-fragid document.open() Title: dom-document-open fetching Title: fetch document . defaultCharset Title: dom-document-defaultCharset Is this an issue that needs to be addressed? -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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