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Re: Title attributes on images and links

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Aug 5, 2009 12:50AM

On 05/08/2009 05:47, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> SEO, tooltip, other reasons?

From what I understand, it's little good for SEO since it's so often
abused for SEO keyword stuffing and can easily be discounted by search
engines.

Good use cases:

* Tooltips for image controls.
* Titles identifying frames and iframes
(http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H64.html)

There are cases where "title" is suggested as a suboptimal alternative
to other methods:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H33.html (vs. using text positioned
off-screen left)

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H65.html (vs. using "label" elements and
positioning them off-screen left)

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H89.html (vs. using text inside "label"
or "legend" and positioning it off-screen left)

See also:

http://tinyurl.com/25lf7a [RNIB]

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis