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From: Joelle Tegwen
Date: Feb 7, 2006 12:30PM

I'm working on this page
http://ici1.umn.edu/beta/nceo/tooltips/accommodations/response.asp
(looks horrible in IE until you hover over enough of the oddly
positioned links and I'm working on that. if you have any ideas I 'd
love to hear it.) to create tool tips that show extra information and
I'm wondering about screen readers and other accessibility.

Someone suggested using <a title=""> instead and I'm wondering how that
gets processed by the screen reader. Does it still read the link text?
How about the method that I used. Does it read the information in the
<span> at all? If not is there a way to get around this?

I've been moving out of the css realm so I'm a little rusty and would
appreciate any help or suggestions.

Thanks
Joelle Tegwen