- From: Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 09:33:06 -0700
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- cc: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On 2009-08-08 Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: >David Poehlman On 09-08-08 11.49: > >>On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > >[...] > >>>But it has been pointed out to me that only expert AT users >>>access the @title information. > >[...] > >>I would just want to record here that it is no longer necessary >>to be an expert at user to access title, it's only necessary to >>use a mac with voice over and the jurry might be out on whether >>that means you have to be an expert but my thinking is no. > >The source I pointed to - one blind authoring and AT usage expert - >told me that sighted Web designers erroneously (when compared to how >things work "in the wild") thought that the @title attribute was very >important to use in order to create accessible (for AT users) Web >pages. Only power users make any use of @title - the same source told. >(This seems to be a common gotcha story to tell non-AT experts, btw.) Jaws handling of @title is contextual. For instance Jaws will announce @title on form elements by default in some situations. Regards, -Steve -- Steve Axthelm steveax@pobox.com
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