I've seen several topics about whether to use the title="..." in anchor tags and people have different views.

If I exclude the title like this:-
<a href="contents.html">Contents</a>

I presume that a screen reader for a blind person will read out "Contents", is that correct?

If I include title like this:-
<a href="contents.html" title="Main contents of this website">Contents</a>

all browsers show a tooltip which I find ugly, but does a screen reader read out both "Contents" and "Main contents of this website"? How can I include extra information for a disabled person without showing the ugly tooltip?

Is the best way to avoid using title but to increase the description between the <a href="..."> and </a> tags? That is also ugly because you get more words with the hover style which may be a different color and underlined.

There was a discussion here http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/ … r-carries/ where people couldn't make up their minds whether it is a good idea to have the title or not and some were thinking of SEO while others were thinking of accessibility.

Last edited by Wickham (2009-07-03 04:14:36)