I can see your point about repeating it twice, I don't understand how different accessibility applications work, but I know that it is part of the WAI and Section 508 accessibility standards that all href elements should have the title attribute, and all images should have an alt tag, even if it is empty. This is what has made me think of this, as I am a website developer, and to pass these accessibility tests, I need to include the "title" in every link - which is not too much of a problem, just that I figure having it as a default would reduce the amount of code I need to write :D
Also, most links will have the same title text as the link text anyway, wouldn't they? Certainly with navigation, Home is Home, About Us is About us... As I say, I don't understand how the applications work exactly, I just want to be able to do what I can to ensure that my websites are accessible to as many people as possible. Thanks Patrick On Sep 12, 9:52 am, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can override cakephp's defualt functionality in your AppHelper if > you want to do this. > > I don't think it should be the standard, as there are situations where > you might not want this. Additionally, why do you need to repeat the > link text in the link title? Won't this effectively cause the > screenreader to speak the link text twice? > > Cheers, > Adam > > On Sep 12, 11:38 am, AussieFreelancer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just done a quick google search, and can't seem to see anything > > about this, but I have been thinking for some time now, that for > > accessibility reasons, wouldn't it make sense for the links to have a > > default title, and even images have an empty alt tag by default? The > > link title could default to the link text, unless a title was > > specified in the options. > > > Any thoughts on this, or reasons as to why cakephp doesn't currently > > work like this? > > > Thanks > > > Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
