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Re: Glossary Tool Tips

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 11, 2012 2:25PM

Hi guys

In the page Jared referred to I click on "ooltip". When I activate the
form field for "age" Jaws reads the tooltip (we only want your age for
statistical purposes).
This is all fine and good for edit fields, but what if the tooltip is
tied to an actual link. Is there an example of such on that page (I
don't see it, I found no other tooltip on the page than the one tied
to the form field).
Do I need to activate a link with enter to see its tooltip (my
understanding is that tooltip is totally separate from an activation,
so activating the link will take me to the link's target and I will
never see the actual tooltip in that case).
This implimentation will also not work if users are loooking at the
page with their arrow keys as opposed to tab, so user may not be aware
of the fact there is a tooltip there in the first place (admittedly
just screen reader users). You may want to indicate the presence of
tooltips somehow e.g. with a hidden heading or text on top of the
page, so SR users will know to check for them.

BR
-B


On 4/11/12, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I'd follow the implementation found at
> http://hanshillen.github.com/jqtest/#goto_tooltip Have the tooltips
> open when the link is focused, point to it with aria-describedby, and
> have the tooltip disappear on Tab and Esc.
>
> Jared
> > > >