- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:07:04 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>> title="Please enter the minimum required age for >> this activity, or leave blank for no minimum age."> <label > >This is an abuse of title. title is *not* a tool-tip. It is >grammatically a noun, not an imperative. Actually, the title attribute is rendered as a tool tip in most graphical browsers, and more importantly, is described as such in the HTML spec. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-title <quote> ... offers advisory information about the element ... may annotate ... Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways. For instance, visual browsers frequently display the title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an object). Audio user agents may speak the title information in a similar context. For example, setting the attribute on a link allows user agents (visual and non-visual) to tell users about the nature of the linked resource: <end quote> Regards, Phill Jenkins, IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center
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