[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6082: Manage screens need "title" attribute on links for accessibility

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#6082: Manage screens need "title" attribute on links for accessibility
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 Reporter:  jhodgdon        |       Owner:  anonymous    
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.5          
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.5          
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  accessibility
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 As of [7135], the links to view and edit on the Manage screens are unclear
 and violate accessibility guidelines, because they lack meaningful "title"
 attributes.

 For instance, on Manage Posts, to view a post, you click on the post date
 or the "unpublished" link. But the link and the screen don't tell you that
 is what the link is for, it just has the date as a link and no indication
 that it should view the post. To edit a post, you click on the post title,
 but the link and the screen don't tell you that, it just has the title as
 the link text and no indication what clicking it will do.

 A minimal suggestion to make this more usable and conform to standard web
 usability guidelines would be to put link titles such as "View Post" and
 "Edit Post" on these links, rather than repeating the link text as the
 hover title, which does not tell you what the link does.

 See http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#gl-facilitate-navigation (point
 13.1) for clarification on this very basic and quite standard web
 accessibiliy guideline. People with vision issues and using screen readers
 may not be able to use this web interface as it is.

 Applies to Manage Posts, Manage Pages, Manage Links, Manage Categories,
 Manage Tags, etc. They all need descriptive link titles.

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