Comments on: Using titles on form fields

By: Accessibility Watch » Using Title in Basic Form Elements

Accessibility Watch » Using Title in Basic Form Elements — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:05:46 +0000

[...] isn’t a new suggestion, as others have made the same recommendation. It’s also part of the WCAG 2.0 techniques (H65: Using the title attribute to identify [...]

By: Julie Strothman

Julie Strothman — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:07:35 +0000

Fantastic! I’ve coded many surveys with Likert scales where I’ve repeated the label ad nauseum to address the one-label-per-input issue, and it does create a lot of visual noise.
Your point small viewports is important and applicable beyond screen magnifiers to people with small screens or a browser not opened to full screen. The title will not help people in these instances if they are not using a screen reader, so it’s still a good idea to repeat the labels every bunch of rows in combination with using the title attribute.

By: Mattyod

Mattyod — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:29:52 +0000

I was interested in using this method to provide users with some error warnings but alas it seems that in most cases the label takes presedence over any title. Thus they are ignored.