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Re: Is use of <label> and title redundant?

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From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Nov 9, 2012 1:24PM

Despite ancient "best practices" that had us put them in, we've gotten rid of almost all title attributes that repeat other elements or attributes on the Mass.Gov site. What pushed us to action was that it was hurting our search engine rankings. It seems machines don't like redundancy any more than screen reader users.

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Sarah E. Bourne
Director of Assistive Technology &
Mass.Gov Chief Technology Strategist
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
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