- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:32:24 -0400
- To: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>, 'www-svg' <www-svg@w3.org>
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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