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Re: Title attribute for iframes

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From: Mallory
Date: Sep 19, 2020 3:08AM

"This raises the obvious question of whether they should. Is there a specification somewhere that mandates this? If not, you can't use it as the basis of a justification for making the "title" element mandatory."

No, this appears to be a decision by Mozilla to ensure sighted keyboarders can see content. Iframes tend to have a default rendering size which is usually smaller than a web document, so I've assumed iframes get focus for the same reason FF gives scrollable/overflow-hidden areas focusability.

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 16/09/2020 09:10, Steve Green wrote:
> > It's not that the client doesn't care. This is a contractual dispute over whether a developer built a website that is WCAG conformant.
>
> And this is where the wooly, handwavy, often quite undefined/up to
> interpretation WCAG crashes on the shores of binary pass/fail ... and
> auditors end up having to do judge/lawyer work, reading the tea
> leaves/entrails of what "the founding fathers of WCAG intended"...
>
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