WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Usage of title attribute or hidden label

for

From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Nov 7, 2013 12:11AM

There is no disagreement between Gez and I on when to use a title
attribute, as stated in my article (
http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/
):

Examples of title attribute use that are USEFUL:

- Labelling frame or iframe elements:
- <frame *title="navigation"*>
- Providing a programmatically associated label for a control in
situations where a visible text label would be redundant:
- <input type="text" *title="search"*> <input type="submit"
value="search">
- labelling controls in data
tables<http://www.paciellogroup.com/presentations/techshare07/?slideSelect=0#slide28>;
.



--

Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;


On 6 November 2013 16:12, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hey Jennifer, so that’s one article from a TPG employee saying don’t use
> the title attribute.
>
> Here’s an article from another TPG employee saying DO use the title
> attribute ;) http://juicystudio.com/article/hidden-label-firefox-bug.php
>
> I also disagree that the title attribute is bad and posted that comment on
> Steve’s article you linked to.
>
> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> www.deque.com
>
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Jennifer Sutton < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > So, to those who are recommending the title attribute, I'm wondering
> > whether this article from the Paciello Group is relevant, so may be
> > worth considering. It's from January of this year:
> >
> http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/
> >
> > At 07:05 AM 11/6/2013, Don Mauck wrote:
> >> I would think that the title attribute should work.
> >>