RE: Accessible Tool Tips

And remembering that it's not all about people using a screen reader .
success criterion 1.4.13, for example. Tooltips can be a pain for people
using higher levels of screen magnification, who use mouse echo to read
text, people who have limited mobility, and so on. 

 

In Australia, there are more people using speech-to-text than text-to-speech
applications.

 

 

 

From: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 4:38 PM
To: 'Richter,Susan' <Susan.Richter@nscc.ca>; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: RE: Accessible Tool Tips

 

Hi,

There are examples here that do as you describe.

https://whatsock.com/Templates/Tooltips/Internal/index.htm

 

I programmed these specifically to work with JAWS, NVDA, and VO.

 

All the best,

Bryan

 

From: Richter,Susan <Susan.Richter@nscc.ca> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 11:08 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Accessible Tool Tips

 

Hey everyone,

 

I have another question for the group. Wondering if anyone out there has any
examples of accessible tool tip implementations. 

 

Here are two examples of what we're currently using:
On a form: https://www.nscc.ca/programs-and-courses/programs/default.aspx

On a content page:
https://www.nscc.ca/programs-and-courses/programs/programfees/program.aspx?p
fid=153

 

In both cases, the little green info bubble has a hover action. When I test
this with JAWS screen reader, you can't access the content of the tooltip
via tab because it's not a link and therefore just gets skipped over. And
when using the arrow keys to proceed logically through the content of the
page it also gets skipped over completely. We've been testing out some
options (not implemented on the pages above) but none of them seem quite
right so they're still in development. So, I was wondering if anyone had any
examples they could share of tooltips that are working for screen reader and
keyboard users.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Susan Richter
Senior Web Interface Developer
Digital Products & Experience

Nova Scotia Community College
Institute of Technology Campus
Web:
<http://www.nscc.ca/?utm_source=email-sig&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emai
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