Re: COinS in OL?

From: Godmar Back <godmar_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:16:30 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Godmar Back <godmar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW, I don't see why screen readers would stumble over this when the
>> child of the <span> is empty. Do they try to read empty text?  And if
>> a COinS is processed, we fix up the title so tooltips show nicely.
>
> Thinking about this a bit more -- does this leave the COinS in an
> unusable state if some other agent executes after LibX is done?
>

I spoke too soon. We don't touch the 'title' attribute.

But we put content in the previously empty <span></span>, so there is
a potential problem with a screen reader then. (That content, though,
has its own 'title' attribute.)

 - Godmar
Received on Fri Dec 05 2008 - 14:31:04 EST