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Re: Rollover Text with Images - ARIA popup or not?

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From: Judith.A.Blankman
Date: May 14, 2014 6:02PM

Thanks for all this great feedback.

Yes, click, enter, or tap will move the focus to the image and the alt
text for that image.


This is not a tooltip. The region the image displays in is always present,
but the image swaps out when the user hovers, clicks/taps/hits enter on
the trigger link.

Visually it is placed to the right or left of a block of text.

The info isn't essential but it is useful. Also, it would be confusing to
use null alt text on the images - the text links would have nothing as a
target.

I like the suggestion of using aria-describedby and aria-label. That seems
to make the most sense in this scenario. Is that applicable when there
isn't an actual overlay or modal?

Best,

Judith

On 5/14/14 4:22 PM, "Jonathan Avila" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>[Bryan wrote] and use ARIA Tooltip markup to cause it to be announced.
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>Bryan, using the role of tooltip doesn't cause anything to be announced.
>Generally tooltips are identified by aria-describedby which is what would
>cause a screen reader to announce the tooltip -- not simply the role of
>tooltip.
>
>Jonathan
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