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Re: Using title attribute on non-anchor elements?

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From: Alex Hall
Date: May 2, 2016 8:44AM

Thanks everyone, this is good to know. I hadn't considered that touch-only
browsers would be left out as well. I'll just add another column to the
table in this case.

If I make tooltips with CSS, tied to hover and focus so that touch browsers
can access them, what's a good way to expose the tooltip information to a
screen reader?

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi Alex, use of title attribute is not recommended under most circumstances
> for many reasons:
> Refer to
>
> https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/01/using-the-html-title-attribute-updated/
>
>
> On Monday, 2 May 2016, Alex Hall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have a results table showing what was pulled from a database query. I'm
> > using the title attribute on some th and td elements to, hopefully, show
> > some data when the user mouses over it. NVDA under Firefox doesn't seem
> to
> > indicate that this title is there at all, and I don't know if there's a
> way
> > to have it do so. Is this a shortcoming/bug in NVDA, or is using title on
> > non-anchors not recommended for conveying information to screen readers?
> If
> > the latter, what's a good alternative? Would using JQuery's onFocus to
> > populate a hidden div work, or is there something simpler? Thanks.
> >
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> > Alex Hall
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> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
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> > > > >



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