@title's relation to accessibility (was Re: Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5)

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At 08:00 +0100 UTC, on 2007-09-02, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> On 01/09/07, Sander Tekelenburg <<mailto:st@isoc.nl>st@isoc.nl> wrote:
>
>>What does @title have to do with accessibility?
>
> [...] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/intro.html#h-2.3.2> [...]
> "HTML 4 developments inspired by concerns for accessibility include:"
>
> "Support for the TITLE and lang attributes on all elements."

Hm... I'd never noticed that. But "inspired by concerns for accessibility" is
extremely vague. So I still don't see what exactly @title has to do with
accessibility.


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Sander Tekelenburg
The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>

Received on Sunday, 2 September 2007 15:43:37 UTC