Re: Deprecating xlink:title

Hi, Brian–

I think that @title is still useful for links (the <a> element), and is 
widely used there, so I don't think we should deprecate it.

(I'm treating @xlink:title as the same as @title, effectively.)

The ARIA mapping should include @title in name calculation, just as it 
does for HTML.

Regards–
–Doug

On 4/16/15 10:27 PM, Brian Birtles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In deprecating xlink:href, I also deprecated xlink:title suggesting
> authors use child title elements instead.[1]
>
> Is this right? HTML makes title (i.e. without the namespace) a global
> attribute[2] with roughly the same meaning as we previously described
> for xlink:title although presumably xlink:title was supposed to describe
> the link specifically?
>
> I notice our ARIA mapping is only interested in title elements.[3] So
> should we deprecate xlink:title? Should we mention title as a global
> attribute in SVG too?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
> [1] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/linking.html#XLinkRefAttrs
> [2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#attr-title
> [3] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/struct.html#implicit-aria-semantics
>

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