Re: Accessibility of HTML title attribute for tooltips

Some elaboration on the problems of the title attribute:
https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/

Even the spec recommends not using it (see the note):
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-title-attribute

An alternative is to create a "toggle tip":
https://inclusive-components.design/tooltips-toggletips/


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On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:11 AM David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 17/07/2020 09:39, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> > "Exception: The visual presentation of the additional content is
> > controlled by the user agent and is not modified by the author."
>
> I assume that is because:
>
> 1) the user should be choosing a use agent that is compatible with their
> disabilities;
>
> 2) user agents should have configuration to enable them to address this
> sort of disability.
>
> So this problem really seems to represent a user agent, not a content,
> problem.
>
>