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

sander wrote:

>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.

a few instances:

1.Use of the title attribute on frames to describe the purpose of the frames
is a WCAG 1.0 checkpoint.
2. MSAA uses the title attribute value for the name property on images, form
controls (if the control does not have a text label programmatically
associated with it)
3. The WAI - ARIA spec uses the the title attribute for the nameref
property;

http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-role/#relationships

"nameRef

Computational mechanism for determine the accessible name of the object to
which the role applies. This may be computed from the children of the object
or* the title attribute*."

4. screen readers such as jaws or window eyes make use of the title
attribute when images and form controls do not have alt text or
programmatically associated text labels.


On 02/09/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote:
>
> [Reply-To set to <public-html@w3.org>]
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Sander Tekelenburg
> The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
>
>



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