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Re: proper use of labels

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jun 16, 2005 6:05AM

> >it is quite natural to expect that some advisory information about
> >the destination is given
> >
> So why cant a screen reader user expect the same thing?? I know that its
> a User Agent issue and the user *can* configure their UA to do this but
> many screen reader users think that the HTML configuration options are
> total overkill and there are many JAWS power users who don't go near
> them at all!!!

Because 99.9% of the web sites out there abuse the title attribute for
visual tooltips, SEO or redundant repetition to adhere to a certain
standard (whatever that may be - internal or automated accessibility
tests).

Just look at any SEO forum (I just did it this morning so the pain
still burns) and you'll see a plethora of posts talking about "alt
tags (ouch!) and title tags (double ouch, as there really is one) in
links help google rank".


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