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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 15, 2017 12:23PM

The purpose of the title attribute is to convey extra information
about an element.
When that element is a link, I believe that is exactly the information
that would work in the title attribute.
There are many ways to convey information, some ideal, some good enough.
That


On 5/15/17, Jeremy Echols < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
>
>