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Bug 592724 - Presentation of the title attribute in Web content should be a user-configurable option
Presentation of the title attribute in Web content should be a user-configura...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
post-3.0
Depends on:
Blocks: 404403
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-22 17:19 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2018-02-08 12:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Form test case/example (4.87 KB, text/html)
2009-08-22 17:21 UTC, Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 		Details

Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-22 17:19:04 UTC 
HTML elements can have a title attribute in addition to (or instead of) alternative text (for images), and labels (for names). Links often have title attributes as well. The reason most content creators use the title attribute is because its contents appear as the tooltip when the user hovers the mouse over the associated object.

Gecko exposes the title attribute as the name of the object. As a result, sometimes we present the title automatically. Other times, we attempt to find something more useful first (like the functional label of a form field).

We should leave it up to the users to decide what information they wish to hsve presented for a given object.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-22 17:21:15 UTC 
Created attachment 141433 [details]
Form test case/example

This time sheet form was taken from José's message to the Orca list on this issue. See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2009-August/msg00290.html