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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Feb 10, 2015 10:26AM

Sometimes they'll also read the name attribute of the frame which is often useless like this LinkedIn widget I put on my website which reads as "li_gen_1423588939286_0 frame" to VoiceOver for OS X.

This is the beginning of the code it finds that from.

<iframe id="li_gen_1423588939286_0" name="li_gen_1423588939286_0"

I can't actually fix this problem with JS it seems because it's an iframe within an iframe that's an https:// iframe so I can't access it to modify the attributes with JavaScript :(

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com <http://www.deque.com/>;
> On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Thanks Paul. I was going on something I read on the WebAim site but will
> now make sure to flag iframes with no titles on my audits.
>
> Dona
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> All iframes need a title to serve as the accessible name otherwise they
>> say "frame, frame, frame, etc." with no useful name as to what the frames
>> are.
>>
>>
>> Paul J. Adam
>> Accessibility Evangelist
>> www.deque.com <http://www.deque.com/>;
>>> On Feb 10, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that frames on Web pages must be titled to be accessible but I
>>> thought that inline frames did not need to be. The titles can't hurt, I
>> am
>>> sure, but from what I have read they are unnecessary.
>>>
>>> Dona
>>> >>> >>> >>
>> >> >> >>
> > >