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Re: Usage of title attribute or hidden label

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From: Paul Adam
Date: Nov 6, 2013 10:55AM

Also usually the title is treated as a hint or help text so it should
usually be different than the short, concise aria-label.

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> On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:34 AM, "Gunderson, Jon R" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Paul,
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> Thank you for your response.
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> 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.
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#namecalculation
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> 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.
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> Jon
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>