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Re: Icon instead of text > open in new window

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From: Jeremy Echols
Date: May 15, 2017 10:27AM

I may be wrong, but I think the title attribute would be incorrect. WebAIM's notes on titles says they should "NOT be used as a replacement for alternative text, form labels, table headers, etc.": http://webaim.org/articles/gonewild/#title

If there's an icon conveying important information, I'm of the opinion it should be an actual image with alt text, and not a background image.