Re: Metadata on Mouse-Over SC

> Ideas on how best to do that?

It was next in my list!

I've updated the wiki page [1] with this:
"Hidden content or metadata that is necessary for understanding is available using any available input method."

So the intent was:
- It should be important information for the page, supplemental information is ok.
- It should be hidden information, including metadata/attributes.
- It should not be input specific, essentially it should be available via keyboard, mouse, touch, whatever is available in that technology / device.

For me it is closely related to 2.1.1 Keyboard, but it could fit under 1.4 instead.

I think historically many cases would be covered by 'functionality' being available to keyboard users, as the vast majority of hidden content would be in components like accordion show/hide things. 

If we are aiming for minimum overlap of SCs in WCAG 2.1, then I would take out the "content or" and just have "metadata", but the general version makes sense to me.

Looking at the examples, I realise this doesn't explicitly address the issue with expanding cursors obscuring tool-tips, but I think it does rule out that use-case as an author would have to use a method available via the keyboard as well. 

If it were available via keyboard/touch, you wouldn't have to mouse-over to get the content, and it wouldn't disappear when you move the large cursor away.

Cheers,

-Alastair

1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Metadata_On_Hover

Received on Tuesday, 25 October 2016 22:50:08 UTC