Re: Accessibility of HTML title attribute for tooltips

Thanks all for your inputs, to conclude, tool tips do not provide best
experience to all the users, it is better to convey critical
information as static text. I am not too much inclined towards using
custom tool tips until it is very necessary as it gets hard to
maintain over time, it would be great if it is possible to get
accessible native title tool tips  out of the box, that would make
life much easier.

Cheers,
Ajay

On 7/17/20, Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com> wrote:
> Note the third statement from Understanding SC 3.3.2:
> "The intent of this Success Criterion is to have content authors
> present instructions or labels that identify the controls in a form so
> that users know what input data is expected. Instructions or labels
> may also specify data formats for fields especially if they are out of
> the customary formats or if there are specific rules for correct
> input. Content authors may also choose to make such instructions
> available to users only when the individual control has focus
> especially when instructions are long and verbose".
>
> So the title attribute does have a role to play in some situations.
> Alas it is not  supported via keyboard by most browsers which is a
> long standing serious browser limitation.
> Thanks,
> Sailesh
>
>
>
> On 7/17/20, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 16/07/2020 22:23, Ajay Sharma wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> I have a question regarding native HTML title attribute, , which is
>>> one of the easy way to add tool tip to a control, but tool tips
>>> generated in this way do not persist while trying to hover with mouse
>>> pointer, which fails SC 1.3.13 Content on hover or focus.
>>
>> Technically, those title tooltips do pass, because they're exempted:
>>
>> "Exception: The visual presentation of the additional content is
>> controlled by the user agent and is not modified by the author."
>>
>> But, as others have noted, I'd actually reconsider the need
>> for/use/reliance on tooltips altogether.
>>
>> P
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Received on Saturday, 18 July 2020 00:22:37 UTC