RE: We may need greater clarity of when it’s a failure to omit title attribute from an iframe

Ø  In the article, the general consensus is that it is usually a failure to omit the title attribute from an iframe

I’d consider it a failure unless it is not user facing.  Many iframes are user facing, e.g. social media widgets, media players, etc.. If it wasn’t user facing, it would need to be properly hidden from the user via tabindex=-1, CSS display none, hidden attribute, etc.

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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 5:10 PM
To: WCAG
Subject: We may need greater clarity of when its a failure to omit title attribute from an iframe

I've put up a bunch of tests with AT and browsers for the title on an iframe. I think we may want to discuss and tighten up some of H6 and maybe parts of the understanding doc. Especially in the case of ads and video players embedded in a web page.
In the article, the general consensus is that it is usually a failure to omit the title attribute from an iframe, but there is quite a bit of diversity from a11y professionals which is captured in the article.

http://davidmacd.com/blog/is-title-attribute-on-iframe-required-by-wcag.html



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