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Re: Frames

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 8, 2003 4:43AM

Sure, as long as the name is intelligible. I think that too often we get name="frm_01_top" because people
assume that the title takes care of all situations -- and maybe it should, but it doesn't.

AWK

>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" ...>
>

Andrew

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