So if you’ve been adding descriptive text into the title attribute, don’t. Even if the link wraps an image, the screenreader will choose to read the image’s alt text instead of the title attribute. The only very tiny exception a title attribute will be read is if there’s absolutely no link anchor text, and that’s rare. There’s an option in JAWS that allows you to read title text instead of the normal anchor text, but it’s not enabled by default. One of the main things I noticed is that the title attribute isn’t read aloud, AT ALL.
It was an incredibly enlightening experience and I learned a lot. I used the most popular commercial screenreader JAWS and the most popular free alternative NVDA. It was for this reason that I meticulously added useful text into the title attribute that would be useful to blind users.Ī few weeks ago I spent some time using screenreaders like a blind person would. I thought it was read aloud by screenreaders, to solve the problem of weak link text like “read more” and “click here”, adding title text would be read aloud instead, or at least as additional text that could be accessed by pressing a special hotkey. Having an attribute to describe the link would be useful for screenreaders and for SEO purposes, so I’d always assumed that’s what the title attribute was for. Share via Facebook (opens in a new tab)ĭo you add a descriptive title attribute to your links? Did you know that you might be making your site even less accessible? Everything I thought I knew about the title attribute was proved wrong when I started using a screenreader.Share via LinkedIn (opens in a new tab).
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