Re: @title's relation to accessibility

At 07:56 +0100 UTC, on 2007-09-04, Dave Pawson wrote:

> On 04/09/07, Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl> wrote:

[...]

>> To be honest, I don't even see the universality aspect of @title. Making use
>> of an element or attribute to specify its meaning is 'just' about semantics
>> isn't it?
>
> How about semantics that are helpfully leveraged for many users?

Sure, semantic authoring is useful to all users (provided they use UAs that
convey those semantics in a useful manner). That's the point I'm trying to
make.

> My liking is that I can tell if it's a PDF at the end of the link

IMO @type is more appropriate for that. It could be made user-friendly throgh
CSS. See <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/WWW/userfriendlierhyperlinks/> and
<http://webrepair.org/strategy/certification/requirements#req21>, where the
idea is that for an authoring tool it will often be dead easy to provide the
proper @type with <a>.

But yes, for many other situations @title can provide useful 'extra'
information to all users.


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

Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:21:38 UTC