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From: Egan, Bim
Date: Jul 29, 2010 8:30AM

One possible reason why JAWS has title attributes switched off by default, is that it seems to be at the cost of other more reliable attributes, such as the alt attribute, or perhaps to reduce the likelihood of unnecessary redundancy. One of the screen readers that I use reads title attributes without any option to turn them off, and the result is a massive overload of repeated information.

However, by default JAWS does normally read title attributes on form control elements. The only time I've come across it failing to do so is when there's also an explicit association to a label, in which case JAWS just reads the label.

Best,

Bim