- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:13:01 -0400
- To: Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>
- Cc: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
true, I think we are addressing links here though. On Aug 9, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Steve Axthelm wrote: On 2009-08-08 Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> wrote: > David Poehlman On 09-08-08 11.49: > >> On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > [...] > >>> But it has been pointed out to me that only expert AT users >>> access the @title information. > > [...] > >> I would just want to record here that it is no longer necessary >> to be an expert at user to access title, it's only necessary to >> use a mac with voice over and the jurry might be out on whether >> that means you have to be an expert but my thinking is no. > > The source I pointed to - one blind authoring and AT usage expert - > told me that sighted Web designers erroneously (when compared to how > things work "in the wild") thought that the @title attribute was very > important to use in order to create accessible (for AT users) Web > pages. Only power users make any use of @title - the same source told. > (This seems to be a common gotcha story to tell non-AT experts, btw.) Jaws handling of @title is contextual. For instance Jaws will announce @title on form elements by default in some situations. Regards, -Steve -- Steve Axthelm steveax@pobox.com
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