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Re: Adding a label to search box

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 13, 2006 4:00AM

> >> WRONG! For form controls title is totally reliable. You are transferring the
> >> unreliable behavior of screen readers for titles on links to that for titles
> >> on form controls.
> I sure was.
> > The
> > title attribute is perfectly reliable with JAWS and with Window-Eyes - and
> > HPR, by the way.
> Thanks for that Jim.:)

Ah, well, it still is no replacement for a label though. As a user
with perfect eye-sight I wouldn't want to wait for a tooltip to pop up
to tell me what I am to enter at this field.

So for form controls all of the abovementioned user agents do read out
titles by default, or does the user have to turn that on?