Totally agree. Applying 'title' attributes to block level elements is a nightmare for users of screen magnifiers because they can't figure out how to get rid of the tooltip whilst keeping the content in view. You would be surprised how much of the screen is obscured by a tooltip at magnification levels as low as 4x, given that magnifier users also tend to use 800x600 resolution.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: 26 May 2007 18:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text On 26 May 2007, at 18:04:38, Designer wrote: > Presumably, <p title="introduction"> and <p id="introduction"> would > do the trick also? Using the "title" attribute means pointing-device-users would get a tooltip saying "introduction" obscuring the text if they happened to have the cursor hovering over that region. Not good usability, IMHO. I occasionally come across sites that make extensive use of "title", and 99 times out of 100 it's more of an impediment than a help. Even the supposed accessibility advantages are open to question: <http://juicystudio.com/article/using-title-attribute.php> I'd still vote for using a class, or an id if you can be certain it will only appear once a page. If the visual distinction in the required design actually does represent a semantically meaningful distinction between that paragraph and the others, rather than just being window dressing, then a <p><em>... would probably be justifiable; I don't think that going all the way to <strong> is necessary. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ******************************************************************* 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] *******************************************************************
