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Re: JAWS 9 - Reading TITLEs of Links

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Mar 12, 2009 5:50AM

> Paul Collins

> I still avoid using titles for that reason - if I add important
information in the title
> area, I assume it won't be read out by the majority of assistive
software users.

Also, title is vaguely enough defined for "advisory information" which
user agents "may ... [render] in a variety of ways"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.3

So definitely not for important information.

P