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RE: Tool tips and screen readers

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Feb 7, 2006 12:45PM

I don't believe that the title attribute is going to do what you're looking
for. Support for it among adaptive technology is rather spotty.
http://www.sf.id.au/WE05/forms.html

Karl L. Groves
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> Joelle Tegwen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:29 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Tool tips and screen readers
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> I've been moving out of the css realm so I'm a little rusty
> and would appreciate any help or suggestions.
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> Thanks
> Joelle Tegwen
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