I agree with Mel's comments about losing the 'title' attribute, and would add that the use of a graphic prevents the user from changing the text and background colours too.
Tooltips can be a nuisance for screen magnifier users unless they are conveying important information, in which case it ought to be in the on-page text because some user agents (such as screen readers and text browsers) do not display the 'title' attribute. The colour contrast is very high in tooltips, so 'title' attributes can be useful for people with visual impairments including magnifier users if the colour contrast in the text (or graphical representation of text) is poor. Of course the colour contrast should not be poor if you are designing a new site, but the designer does not always have total control over this (corporate branding guidelines etc). Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk "Alexander J Jerabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Although this is valid (see snippet below), and there are alt and title > tags for the image, does the following make sense from an accessibility > or usability point of view? Are there any problems with this sort of > markup? > > Thanks for any opinions, > > Sacha > > ------snippet----- > > <label for="google"> > <a href="http://www.google.com/";> > <img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif"; > width="128" height="53" > alt="Search Google" > title="Search the Internet using Google" /> > </a> > </label> > > <input type="text" name="q" id="google" value="" /> > > -----end snippet---- > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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