[Bug 7362] inclusion of the title as a case where the alt may be omitted is problematic

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7362





--- Comment #12 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>  2009-09-20 12:08:51 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I agree that today people shouldn't do this, because today most browsers have
> an accessibility bug in that they don't expose title="" attributes to users who
> do not have pointing devices.
> However, HTML5 requires that the title="" attribute be exposed just like it
> requires everything else to be exposed, and it makes sense, therefore, to rely
> on the title="" attribute for giving the title of the image.
> Removing the recommendation that the title="" attribute be used in this way
> would make as much sense as removing _any_ new features in the spec on the
> grounds that they're not implemented yet. Obviously these features don't work
> yet, they're new. The spec is not even in "last call" yet. We can't base
> authoring advice on legacy browsers when writing a spec for future browsers, we
> have to write the advice based on what we intend the future browsers to be.
> I've added a paragraph to the title="" attribute subsection in the rendering
> section encouraging UAs to provide keyboard access for tooltips.
> See also UAAG Guideline 4.1.
> If you disagree with this resolution, please escalate this issue to the chairs.

created issue in tracker: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/80


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