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Results for: title attribute

  • Thoughts on “Notes from the future of HTML session at TPAC”

    […] in HTML, leading developers up the garden path on the document outline, use of the title and placeholder attributes etc. The value of W3C HTML to me is that it […]

    October 29, 2015Technical

  • Current Standards Work at W3C

    People regularly ask me what I am working on at the W3C, here is a run down of standards/guidance documents I am editing/co-editing, contributing to (note: I am only 1…

    March 19, 2015Technical

  • Emulating failure

    […] custom controls built from ‘s and ‘s: HTML: 1, HEAD: 1, STYLE: 8, META: 6, TITLE: 1, LINK: 3, SCRIPT: 11, BODY: 1,  IFRAME: 11,  DIV: 3757, FORM: 3,  INPUT: […]

    February 2, 2015Technical

  • filing bugs

    […] file separate bug reports for each problem encountered. Key Components of a Good Bug Report Title A good bug report has a clear and concise title (usually less than 15 […]

    June 29, 2014Technical

  • An Accessible Design Maturity Continuum

    […] cosmetic, very visible accessibility features, such as boiler-plate, generic accessibility statements, complex accesskey mappings or adding title attributes to every link—features that might give an impression of delivering accessibility but in reality […]

    June 26, 2014Technical

  • aria-labelledby and aria-describedby support in popular Windows browsers

    […] into the MSAA name or description. 2.When an element contained a native accessibility attribute ( title or alt) the aria-labeledBy and describedBy attributes did not take precedence over the native […]

    June 10, 2014Technical

  • Short note on alt in HTML

    It is no longer a WCAG 2.0 conformance failure to have an without an alt attribute, as long as the img element has an accessible name provided using another method […]

    April 14, 2014Technical

  • Usability and accessibility opportunities in a web component world

    A discussion on the WHATWG list about the limitations/issues with the current design of the summary and details elements, brought forth the following comment:

    April 7, 2014Technical

  • Using ARIA to enhance SVG accessibility

    […] SVG. SVG accessibility SVG includes two elements for providing short and long text descriptions: The title and desc elements. … Circle Large red circle with a black border …… Browser […]

    December 19, 2013Technical

  • Accessibility Drives Web Traffic

    […] appear in search engine results if a transcript accompanied the video. Having an accurate page title facilitates accessibility and SEO.  Without informative page titles, screen reader users and users with […]

    October 18, 2013Technical

  • Notes on Guidelines For Speech accessible HTML for Dragon NaturallySpeaking

    […] be taken to associate text with an image link. First, you can assign ALT or TITLE attributes containing the text that corresponds to the image (or to each individual area of […]

    October 13, 2013Technical

  • Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks – 2013

    […] Landmark Role HTML5 Sectioning Element role=”banner” A region that contains the prime heading or internal title of a page. Most of the content of a banner is site-oriented, rather than […]

    February 12, 2013Technical

  • Using the HTML title attribute – updated March 2020

    […] the same content as our 2010 post. They each originally addressed different aspects of the title attribute, but now they match. We are keeping both of them to account for inbound […]

    January 15, 2013Technical

  • Making Images Visible to Blind Users

    […] buttons H37: Using alt attributes on img elements H67: Using null alt text and no title attribute on img elements for images that AT should ignore C9: Using CSS to include […]

    October 10, 2012Technical

  • W3C HTML and WHATWG HTML ‘split’ effect on HTML Accessibility?

    […] long argued that due to the almost complete lack of keyboard access to the the title attribute in browsers, the HTML specification should not include conformance requirements and  authoring advice for […]

    July 23, 2012Technical

  • Firefox 14: image long description via link using aria-describedby

    […] an image: Using aria-describedby to provide a long description link on an image ARIA aria-describedby attribute used on HTML image element and pointing to HTML a element makes the image […]

    May 11, 2012Technical

  • HTML data for the masses: data dump

    […] KB 10/04/2012 label-placeholder.htm 258 KB 12/04/2012 longdesc.html 2194 KB 10/04/2012 nav.html 2194 KB 11/04/2012 placeholder- title.html 467 KB 12/04/2012 placeholder.html 1489 KB 12/04/2012 section.html 4202 KB 10/04/2012 summaryattribute.html 1068 KB […]

    April 12, 2012Technical

  • HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse

    […] the past 7 years myself and others have banged on about the trouble with the title attribute in regards to accessibility and usability. Bottom line is that it is not well […]

    January 23, 2012Technical