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Re: Title attribute for iframes

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Sep 14, 2020 7:14PM

The challenge is that in some browsers the iFrame appears in the focus order. Iframes (and in the past frames) may have been used to communicate a separate portion or pane of a site. Some iFrames are used for specific components, like text editors, video players and widgets. Thus, historically the industry have treated them like a component. If the iFrame was removed from the focus order and the content did not act like a user interface component that needed to be labelled then it might not need a name to meet the requirements -- but it's hard to tell this with an automated tool -- so it's safest to flag these.

Jonathan