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Re: Frames

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 8, 2003 2:00AM

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> JAWS does it in two ways. - -
> one way you hear the title and the other you hear the name.
> I usually recommend that both be added and be identical.

Making them identical could disappoint users who can access both
NAME and TITLE and who have heard or seen the NAME but found it too
cryptic and wish to check what the TITLE says. Due to the uses of NAME for
other purposes (e.g., in TARGET attributes), it needs to be relatively
short; TITLE can used to give a more verbose explanation.

Cf. to http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#frame-text-equivalent
which contains examples like
<FRAME src="sitenavbar.html" name="navbar"
title="Sitewide navigation bar" ...>

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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