I see where you are coming from, in a way. It seems that there is a problem, not with developers, but with accessibility overall if there is no way to provide additional information for link text.
Anchor text such as "The Future" or "Our Projects" may be intended, but to the average user they can scan the page quickly and get an idea about what "The Future" is relating to. For users who find it difficult to read or view pages for whatever reason trying to figure out where that link takes you is going to be hard. That visitor may be a customer or it may be someone trying to find information. It would be better to have something like: <a href="future.html" title="The future of APR Electrical Components Corperation">The Future</a> Maybe in the new versions of HTML of WCAG they should think about this, providing addition information. Primarily aimed at people with disabilities but its there for the average Joe aswell. Great discussion though, some valid points on both ends i feel. James On Nov 18, 2007 7:54 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Jeffery wrote: > > > Some do, some don't. I would rather provide to those that do and give > > the disabled a greater benifit for those that make use of the title > > attribute. > > Link text should make sense to *everybody*. If they don't, don't just > fix it for the "poor disabled users", fix it for everybody. > > Your intentions are well meant, but misplaced IMHO. And, as I was > saying, it's wrong to say "you *should* provide title" as if the > original poster made an omission. This is all opinion, not dogma. > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > ______________________________________________________________ > re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively > [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] > www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk > http://redux.deviantart.com > ______________________________________________________________ > Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force > http://webstandards.org/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team > http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************
