On Jul 1, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Miles A Cruickshank wrote:

> Use the link title tag to add a 'tooltip' - (also good for search
> engines as well as usability, accessibility and just plain
> grooviness) to the link, eg:
>
> <a title="Link to website in new window" href="http://
> www.domain.co.uk" target="_blank">link text</a>
>
> Example: hover over the links on this page <http://
> www.lorettotraining.co.uk/>
>
> That coupled with the external link symbol seems a good solution to
> me.


I've got to disagree with you here, in terms of accessibility.

The weakness with link titles is that in normal modes, screen readers
do not "speak" the link title. Also, people who use the keyboard for
navigation will not see them either as they tab through the link on a
page.

So if you are using them as an "enhancement", that's OK. But it's
considered bad practice to put critical information about a link in
the link title. Now, whether the fact that a link leads out of the
site is critical or not is a different issue. Ideally the linked word
or words should be descriptive enough for all users to tell before
that click it where they will end up, and the site you are linking
too will have clear page titles and such so that someone who doesn't
see the page will know that they are in a different site.

But I digress. The point it, many users with disabilities will not
see link titles.

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