Difference between revisions of "Alt text and title attribute"

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[[Category: Accessibility]]

Latest revision as of 18:41, 3 December 2010

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The "title" attribute is not a tool to convey accessibility. Most users, screenreader or not, never see title attributes.

Except in form controls, title attributes are useless to 99% of users -- including sighted users, since most people don't hover long enough to see the tooltip.

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