Re: tooltip listed under Don’t Use Unsupported iOS Technologies

Hi Steve,

I did some research on this. It is a known issue that Safari on iOS does not currently have a way to visually display the title attribute. I can't reveal anything about plans for future releases at this time.

It should be noted that VoiceOver on both Mac OS X and on iOS will read out the title when activated. So although title is not currently a great choice if you wish to support touch UI on iOS, we do make its contents available to VoiceOver users.

In addition, Safari on desktop with VoiceOver enabled will visually display everything that's read, and allow anything on screen to be focused using the "VoiceOver curser"; this includes even elements that are not ordinarily focusable. So by enabling VoiceOver and muting it, it is also possible for users who have difficulties using a pointing device to see the contents of title text. VoiceOver on iOS does not include the visual display, so it does not provide this same feature.

Hope this helps,
Maciej

On May 5, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Steve Faulkner wrote:

> Hi Maciej, 
> 
> Any chance of getting a response to this query as it is germane to the re-opening of the title/alt decision.
> 
> if you are not the right person to be asking can you point me to someone who is?
> 
> 
> regards
> Stevef
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> On 26 April 2011 13:40, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi  Maciej
> 
> I have been reading the Safari web content guide, it states [1] under the heading "Don’t Use Unsupported iOS Technologies"
> 
> "Tooltips
> Similar to hover styles, tooltips are not displayed unless the user touches and holds a clickable element with a tooltip."
> 
> which suggests that tooltips can be displayed but is confusingly listed under the 'Unsupported iOS Technologies' heading.
> 
> I tested out the instructions on a simple test page [2] there are 3 clickable elements on the page each having a title attribute, but could not get any of them to display a tooltip.
> 
> no matter what i tried, i just kept getting the select/copy/paste tools displayed. can you clarify whether this information refers to the display of title attribute content?
> 
> [1]http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/reference/safariwebcontent/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006482-SW1
> [2] http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/title-support.html
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> -- 
> with regards
> 
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG
> 
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> HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/
> Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html 
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