- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:43:15 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Paul Collins wrote: > Hi all, > > If anyone could tell me their thoughts on adding a title tag repeating > the content of a text-based link, I would greatly appreciate it. I > realise JAWS doesn't read out titles, but I have been told it is > helpfull for partially sighted people using a zoom text. > > This being the case though, would the text on the actual link itself > not be enlarged? I realise titles are necessary for a further > description of the link, but wondering whether it is necessary to > repeat the text of the link in the title? > > EG: <a href="#" title="example link">example link</a> IMO any browsing technology that benefits from this is flawed in not dealing sufficiently with the textual contents. A significant downside to this is it would prevent authors from using titles to indicate additional information about the target of the link.
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