- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:52:43 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Cc: wai-xtech@w3.org
2007-09-03 18:45:15 +0200 Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>: > [...] > >> For example to tell a user about the purpose of a link or >> to add supplementary information that adds to what they can glean >> from >> the link text is straight forward etc but with the img element, even >> when the user explicitly chooses to have the contents of the title >> attribute read out. it can still be ignored. > > Sure, but what has this got to do with "accessibility"? A user > without any > disablities may just as well choose to ignore @title, or images, or > Flash, or > javascript, etc. If that is a question about how HTML4 links it to accessibility, then let's say that instead of @TITLE, HTML4 had included a method for showing a select graphic (without any @ALT) as tooltip. Then it would have had less to do with accessibility. It is text, which can be read by all UAs. That's probably the accessibility thing about it - along with the fact that it can be applied to all elements. Perhaps the thinking also was that via @TITLE, one could add information without changing the structure/the elements or the text body of a document - so that one could apply @TITLE instead of demanding a rewrite of the document? -- leif halvard silli
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