On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Dani Iswara <daniisw...@gmail.com> wrote: > In some blog machines/engines/themes, title attribute usually has > the same text as in anchor link. Eg. in post title with > rel="bookmark". Redundant information, based on Web accessibility > point of view. But > http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html, Semantic Data > Extractor tool built by W3C needs the title information for the > bookmarkable points. > > So, is there a way to make it accessible and semantic properly?
Short answer: omit redundant "title" attributes. The W3C hosts some formal standards endorsed by its membership (Recommendations). But they also host a load of tools and documents that have no special formal status. This tool is one of those. I think you are being misled by a bad user interface decision on the part of whomever built the tool. When the tool says "[Unknown title]", I suspect it is telling you that you have not added a "title" attribute to the link, not that you /must/ or even /should/ add a title to the link. If the developer *did* mean to tell you to add the attribute, then they were wrong and trumped both by your users' needs (which should always come first) and also by the formal Recommendations that tell you how to use the "title" attribute". The W3C HTML 4.01 Recommendation is clear: "title" provides "advisory information about the element for which it is set": http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#adef-title If you don't have any useful advisory information to add, then "title" should be omitted or empty ("title=''"). In fact, because of the usability problems with common implementations of "title", even if you do have useful advisory information, it may not be the best place to put it. http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=37 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
