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Re: textbox in table cell

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Mar 26, 2008 6:50PM

Indeed the title solution for such cases is documented in the current
draft of the techniques document for WCAG2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H65.html

Regards,
James

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Moore, Michael
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Personally I prefer to use the title solution, I have not come across a
> screen reader in a long time that does not announce the title by default
> when there is no label defined. I think that the objections to the
> solution are mainly from standardistas who view the use as inappropriate
> from a web standards view. The use of the title as defined by the W3C
> "This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which
> it is set." source:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-title I think that
> providing a description of what to put in the input would qualify as
> advisory information.
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