> > Therefore, if you want to show "tooltips", it's better to > > do that with CSS > > (or CSS + JavaScript), e.g. including explanatory text in > > document content, > > hiding it with CSS, and making it visible in a particular > > position. It's > > useful then to add title="" (i.e., title attribute with > > empty value), as > > this will prevent some browsers from displaying the alt > > attribute value as > > "tooltip". > > Actually, the title attribute is the best way of displaying tooltips, > IMO. That text is available to screenreaders, and is - as you point out > - handled by most browsers in a fairly consistent way, usually in > keeping with the user's OS, so the behaviour should be familiar.
Note that "tooltips" are often a problem for screen magnifier users. Because they "get in the way". -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
