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Re: Adding a label to search box

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 12, 2006 7:30AM

> > Titles can and
> > are in a lot of cases turned off, you cannot rely on them.
>
> Can you provide a little more info about the instance that you're
> thinking of?

It seems that JAWS has title reading off by default, for starters, and
not many people turn it on:
http://www.sf.id.au/WE05/survey.html

More research on that:
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0304-observing.html
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?2005/01/10/13-browsing-habits
http://www.access-matters.com/2005/10/01/quiz-118-alt-text-or-title-text/