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Re: Usage of title attribute or hidden label

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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Nov 6, 2013 10:33AM

Paul,

Thank you for your response.

If you use title attribute there is no reason to use aria-label, since the title attribute is part of the accessible name calculation for aria enabled technologies, and technologies that are not supporting aria would ignore the aria-label attribute anyway.

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#namecalculation

Some developers don't want the tooltip for various reasons, so aria-label attribute hopefully makes adding a label easier for them, or the tooltip (title attribute) content is really providing additional information beyond what the label is providing.

Jon