- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:58:38 -0800
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@ACM.org>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, "Bruce Bailey" <bbailey@clark.net>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 07:11 AM 2/24/2000 , Leonard R. Kasday wrote: >My understanding is that Title is what's supposed to pop up for sighted folks. Therefore it should add to--not be redundant to the image. Let's not think of it that way. For starters, let's not say "this is for <people with particular abilities or disabilities>." Also, TITLE is not meant as a "pop-up" any more than it's meant as a label to be read by a screenreader. In truth, it's just a way to add meta-information called "title" to an element. >For example, if there's a "contact us" button, it would be silly to redundantly pop up "contact us" for a sighted person. It's more reasonable to pop up something that adds to what they are already reading, e.g. "and we'll listen". That's reasonable -- if you assume it's a pop-up. However, to title a button "and we'll listen" is to ignore the purpose of the TITLE element, which is provide -- ta da -- a "title." Proper titling should be done despite whatever the user agents decide to do. If there needs to be a specific TOOLTIP attribute, that might be the best approach for certain user agents, using extensible additions to XHTML. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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