Moodle

Link to resource title tag is redundant

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Accessibility, Usability
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE

Description

When you create a new resource/module/whatever, the link to it is displayed on the course home page with a title tag e.g

<a title="Forum" href="http://openlearnacct.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/view.php?id=144180">Course forum</a>

Since every forum has the tag "Forum" and every resource has the tag "Resource", they're not really very helpful. I think that either we should do without entirely, or it should repeat the resource/module/whatever name e.g. Course forum in my example above.

I guess some-one with an accessibility bent will be able to say how much impact just removing the title would have!

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Sam Marshall added a comment -

I think there should be no title tag in this situation. Unless we can find some data that is more useful than the visible text of the link ('Course forum' in this case); the current title is less useful.

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Sam Marshall added a comment - I think there should be no title tag in this situation. Unless we can find some data that is more useful than the visible text of the link ('Course forum' in this case); the current title is less useful.
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Nick Freear added a comment -

Related article from the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Web Access Centre, 16 may:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/too-much-accessibility/too-much-accessibility-title-attributes/

"... The enthusiasm with which many web authors employ this attribute, is enough to make some disabled users' heads spin with the volume of repeated or irrelevant text at one end of the scale; while at the other end, users are kept completely in the dark about important information. ..."

  • I agree with sam, no TITLE here. As a rule, can we all think before using a title?! Thanks nick
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Nick Freear added a comment - Related article from the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Web Access Centre, 16 may: http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/too-much-accessibility/too-much-accessibility-title-attributes/ "... The enthusiasm with which many web authors employ this attribute, is enough to make some disabled users' heads spin with the volume of repeated or irrelevant text at one end of the scale; while at the other end, users are kept completely in the dark about important information. ..."
  • I agree with sam, no TITLE here. As a rule, can we all think before using a title?! Thanks nick
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Jenny Gray added a comment -

This simple patch will remove the title attribute from module links on a course home page. If you're content, I can check it in?

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Jenny Gray added a comment - This simple patch will remove the title attribute from module links on a course home page. If you're content, I can check it in?
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Martin Dougiamas added a comment -

Hmm, YOU know it's a forum but how else do you know it's a forum if you didn't know? Do we rely on the preceding icon?

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - Hmm, YOU know it's a forum but how else do you know it's a forum if you didn't know? Do we rely on the preceding icon?

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