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Re: hovers and screenreaders

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Feb 26, 2010 10:27AM

Hi Carin,

the site is uisng the title attribute on links to provide extra information
about the link. Unfortunately many screen readers do not provide practical
access to this information. An alternative strategy is to use contextual
content hidden via CSS. This article by gez lemon explains one such method
Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=8

regards
stevef

On 26 February 2010 15:36, Carin Headrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi. I'm trying to help a webmaster. Her page is loaded with "click here"
> links. She put some kind of hovering title on some of them hoping
> screenreaders would find it. Mine sure didn't. I know that some things that
> hover can be found by screenreaders. What's the magic trick? She works for
> my city. The site is http://guelph.ca/living.cfm?subCatID=1179&;smocid=1764
>
> and behold the mass o' click heres!
>
> Carin
>