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Re: using title attribute as form field label

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Nov 9, 2011 9:42AM

Hi Jared, have posted a bug against the HTML5 spec about this

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14740

regards
steve

On 8 November 2011 23:05, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
> > For AT that use information exposed via an accessibility API, it is the
> > accessible name property they use regardless of whether the source of the
> > name is from the label element, aria attribute, element content or title
> > attribute.
>
> I understand. Despite what ARIA says or what accessibility APIs do,
> this does not change the definition of the title attribute in the HTML
> specification. If we want to redefine title to allow it to be an
> alternative for form labeling (or description for frames for that
> matter), this should occur in the spec, shouldn't it? You have to have
> a very liberal and creative interpretation of the HTML spec to
> interpret "advisory information" to mean "accessible name".
>
> Jared
>