- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:16:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Charles (Chuck) Oppermann" <chuckop@microsoft.com>
- cc: WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Tooltips are an implementation issue, and therefore in the purview of UA, not PAGL. And for what it's worth, my personal view is that rather than being a core CSS attribute it should be a preference in a UA which implements them. Charles McCathieNevile On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote: I agree. There needs to be a CSS attribute to control the rendering of the ALT and TITLE attributes. Possible values would be: TOOLTIP or NONE. That way, the author can control the visual appearance, and if required, the user can override it. For purposes of accessibility, the tool tip doesn't matter - that the information is there and available in the object is the key (exposed by DHTML/DOM/MSAA whatever). The reason the tool tip exists currently is to make the author more aware of the attribute and to test for it's presence easily. --Charles McCathieNevile - mailto:charles@w3.org phone: * +1 (617) 258 0992 * http://purl.oclc.org/net/charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative - http://www.w3.org/WAI 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, USA
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