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Re: Tool tips and screen readers

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From: Wayne Dick
Date: Feb 7, 2006 1:00PM


Hi Joelle,

I just tried it with MS IE mediated by
IBM's WebAdapt2Me. It worked pretty
well. The hover stuff is quite odd.

Sincerely

Wayne Dick



On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:29:25 -0600
Joelle Tegwen < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:
> 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
>
>
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Wayne Dick PhD
Chair Computer Engineering and
Computer Science
Director WebAdapt2Me Project at CSULB