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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Oct 9, 2015 8:47AM

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Terzian, Sharon wrote:

> Hi
> curious about your opinions of Perkin's new accessible website
>
> from my html snooping, I was surprised to not see titles as part of their a href tags

I didn't look at the rest of the site, but this is not surprising at all.

The title attribute does not add functionality to anchor tags. The title attribute is widely misunderstood to be an accessibility feature, even though there are very few cases where it adds accessibility (frames, certain situations and forms, certain situations and tables). The titles on anchor tags are not accessible to people using the keyboard, not accessible to people using speech recognition, only accessible to people using screen readers under certain circumstances, and not accessible to people in mobile.

Great breakdown is here: https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/

Deborah Kaplan