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Re: when is the "title" attribute used in the accessible namecomputation?

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From: Steve Green
Date: May 30, 2018 4:32PM

I have no objection to the title attribute being included in the accessible name calculation as the last resort in the absence of anything else. However, I would set the threshold for WCAG compliance as being higher than that.

The rationale is that including the title attribute in the accessible name calculation will benefit some people, but not enough that it can be considered sufficient.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Bryan Garaventa
Sent: 30 May 2018 19:14
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] when is the "title" attribute used in the accessible name computation?

Hi,
There is an open issue about this for the AccName 1.2 milestone at
https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/10


Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
Level Access, Inc.
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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 8:57 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] when is the "title" attribute used in the accessible name computation?

I thought I knew the answer because it seems like I read
https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.1/#step2 about once a month.

My original thought was that the title attribute is the last kid to get picked for for the kickball team. Step 2.I says "Otherwise, if the current node has a Tooltip attribute, return its value. Comment:
Tooltip attributes are used only if nothing else, including subtree content, has provided results."

However, when I was reading it today, step 2.D says "Otherwise, if the current node's native markup provides an attribute (e.g. title) or element (e.g. HTML label) that defines a text alternative, return that alternative..."

Is the title attribute really considered a "text alternative"? I've never considered it along the same lines as the alt attribute, but the spec specifically lists the title attribute as an example of a text alternative.

Should the attribute example in 2.D really be the alt attribute instead of the title attribute? The comment section for 2.D talks about the <img> element's alt attribute.

Glen