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Re: why is title attribute necessary on iframes?

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From: Angela French
Date: Dec 15, 2016 11:05AM

Thanks; I was thinking that most screen readers users don't configure the reader to read out title attributes.

Angela French

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] why is title attribute necessary on iframes?

also if you don't include it the thing the screenreader says is gibrish

Lucia Greco
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks JP, that makes sense now. I wasn't thinking of the crappy 3rd
> party stuff that comes in that no one wants to read! ;-)
>
> Angela French
>
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> Behalf Of JP Jamous
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] why is title attribute necessary on iframes?
>
> It provides a summarized caption of what the iframe includes. Think of
> it as a Title element on a page. Without it would you know what this
> page talks about?
>
> Why is that important? What if the iframe is a 3rd party add that I
> want to skip? I can hear the title and press the navigation key that
> would make me skip that iframe and go to something meaningful on the page.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [WebAIM] why is title attribute necessary on iframes?
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> Can someone explain to me, please, what the title attribute does in an
> iframe for screen reader users? (Success Criteria 4.1.2) What is its
> importance in making an iframe accessible?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Angela French
> Internet/Intranet Specialist
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