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RE: Titles for non-visual UAs?

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Apr 18, 2005 12:08AM

Hi Maximillian
I have begun documenting the display behaviour of title attributes in
various browser & screen readers.
I have pulled out a couple of data tables containing information relevant
to your question and put them in a word file:

http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/title-attribute.doc


with regards

Steven Faulkner
Web Accessibility Consultant
National Information & Library Service (NILS)
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Kooyong Victoria 3144
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]On Behalf Of Maximillian
>> Schwanekamp
>> Sent: Saturday, 16 April 2005 9:14 AM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Titles for non-visual UAs?
>>
>>
>> How exactly do screen readers typically render the title attribute of
>> links or other elements? I'd like to use titles to provide
>> descriptive/help info on some of my forms, but I'm hesitant due to lack
>> of knowledge about how titles are rendered non-visually. TIA!
>>
>> --
>> Maximillian Von Schwanekamp
>> http://www.neptunewebworks.com/
>>
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