> Derek Featherstone wrote: > ------------------------- > What is critical and what is "extra" is determined by context. In general, > the lower tech the approach, the more accessible it is. If it is in the > content, everyone gets what they need, instead of having to rely on a > tooltip which may or may not appear for the information. > > The title attribute is just one way of hiding what might (notice I said > might) be better placed in the actual content itself... > http://www.wats.ca/articles/hiddeninformation/63
I agree with you in a way: crucial information should not be HIDDEN in the title (or the ALT) of an image. But, if we remember that web users tend to scan content on a website rather than reading it: chances are crucial information in the content gets missed as well. In that case, putting it into the content AND into the title will double the chances of crucial content being read. Or not? Sometimes, to make things more user-friendly, we have to give multiple accesspoints to the same information. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
