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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 11, 2021 7:08AM

I am sure someone else will correct me if I miss something.

Any user interface element that relies on focus or hover to work will not work on touch devices. So the only way tooltips will work on a mobile device is if you use some method for triggering the tooltip that does not rely on those events.

I wasn't able to spend as much as I would like to read the article. It is a good article, but I think it is just focused on desktop. It didn't look like any of the techniques I read would work on mobile because it looks like they all relied on focus or hover.

I hope that helps?
Thanks!
Tim
Tim Harshbarger
Senior Accessibility Consultant
Deque Systems