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Re: Screenreader support for title....

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From: ben morrison
Date: Jun 3, 2008 6:00AM

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Paul,
>
> In terms of JAWS, the TITLE attribute is supported, however the
> end-user must turn that option on (at least in JAWS V7.X), it is not
> automatically read out-of-the-box.

I'm not sure about latest versions, but I think it would work in forms
mode/form elements but not on any other elements say <a> unless
'verbosity' settings were changed.

I just don't rely on the title attribute.

ben
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Ben Morrison