Re: Is content on hover only a WCAG failure?

IMO it is a WCAG failure except in the situation where the content is 
redundant

  * Shown elsewhere (for example the text from the hover is "easily
    available" somewhere else)
  * Not showing any additional information (i.e. <button title="press
    this to save">save</button> )

Regards,
james

On 10/17/2017 10:14 AM, Repsher, Stephen J wrote:
>
> I’m looking for some conformational feedback on a simple question: If 
> content appears only on hover, i.e. the trigger is not focusable, does 
> that *always* constitute a WCAG 2.0 failure?  In the context of 2.1.1, 
> I suppose this asks whether the ability to show the content is 
> considered “functionality” and thus must be keyboard operable.  One 
> example might be where a help icon is used to show extra info for a 
> form field and is piped to the accessible description:
>
> <label>Reason<input type=”text” … 
> aria-describedby=”tooltip”></label><img src=”help-icon.png” … 
> onmouseover=”showTooltip()”>
>
> Depending on your answer above…
>
> If you answered yes, then doesn’t that translate to saying that any 
> element with a title attribute must be focusable, either by default 
> from its semantics or manually via setting its tab index?  For example:
>
> <img … alt=”blah” title=”more blah” tabindex=”0”>
>
> If you answered no, then can you offer examples and explain why they 
> are fully accessible (I don’t think mine above actually is)?
>
> *Steve Repsher*
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