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RE: title attribute of anchor tag

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 20, 2004 9:47AM

Be careful. You might have heard that this is true, and it is, as long as
the user's preference is set to read titles on links. In JAWS you can set
it to read one of three things:
A) screen text
B) title attribute
C) longest (of the title and the screen text)

I believe that the setting is "screen text" by default.

AWK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee, Samson (NIH/NIDCR) [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: ' <EMAIL REMOVED> '
> Subject: RE: title attribute of anchor tag
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. But I think I just found a
> better solution. I can just go title="Some Link: extra info
> about the link", so this way JAWS will read the both link
> itself and its extra info... (duh!)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:03 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: title attribute of anchor tag
>
>
> > 1. making the link an image, so that you can use the alt
> attribute 2.
> > using CSS to place the extra text above the visible area on
> the page
> > (explained below) 3. inserting a 1px by 1px image after the
> text link
> > and putting the alt text there
>
> Lee,
> The one downside of option 2 (moving the extra text off
> screen) is that it will not work for users browsing with
> images off or with a client that doesn't support images (but
> does support CSS).
>
> An additonal thing to think about is adding onfocus and
> onblur attributes to the link so the the rollover will work
> for keyboard users also.
>
> <a onMouseover="swapImage('defaultImageID','','extraInfoImage.gif',1)"
> onMouseout=swapImgRestore()
> onfocus="swapImage('defaultImageID','','extraInfoImage.gif',1)"
> onblur=swapImgRestore() href="page.htm" title="extra info
> about the link"
> >Some Link</a>
>
> AWK
>
>
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