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Re: Titles for iframes

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 10, 2015 12:59PM

Steve Faulkner wrote:

> I this case role="presentation" could be used to remove the semantics of
> the frame, need to check AT support.

Not surprisingly, this does nothing in VoiceOver. VoiceOver reads the
iframe's name attribute value, if present, otherwise it reads "Frame
0" for each untitled iframe.

> I wrote an article about hidden iframes that may be helpful
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/04/making-sure-hidden-frames-are-hidden/
> though probably needs an update :-)

Of note is that this is only relevant for hiding the iframe content,
not for hiding the iframe name or other stuff being read if a title is
not present.

Jared