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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 14, 2016 11:17AM

> 2. Mouse hovers when a user places a mouse pointer on top of an graphic, link, paragraph, etc. How can a screen reader or keyboard user interact with this? Does a on keyboard event have to be present? Some posts I have seen state the use of a mouse hover as I described should not be present. I am not sure the best practise here.

You can use aria-describedby to associate the tooltip text with the triggering item -- you will want the item to be focusable for keyboard only users as well and can use onfocus to trigger the popup.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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SSB BART Group 
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