[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24203: Remove the_title_attribute() from anchors with the_title() as text

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#24203: Remove the_title_attribute() from anchors with the_title() as text
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 Reporter:  nacin                  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Bundled Theme          |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |
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Comment (by nacin):

 It's harmful in two instances:
  * One, useless tooltips are a big turn-off. It's one of the reasons we
 got rid of tooltips for images by default in 3.5. Almost every time, the
 tooltip was going to be one of three things: the caption (redundant), the
 alt text (misapplied and redundant), or "IMG_5678" which was one of the
 lamest things in WordPress. You hover over a title that says "Permalink to
 (title)" and you just know you're on a WordPress site. My point is it
 isn't just code cruft, it is cruft that the user sees too.

  * More so, it is definitely harmful when it comes to accessibility. There
 is a long-standing, strong opinion in the accessibility community (a
 little bit on the make thread I linked to) that title attributes are
 terrible and useless. They are either ignored by screen readers, or
 double-read by screen readers. They can also pose a problem for dyslexic
 users. Experts have outlined a number of other issues with them, and the
 HTML5 spec actively discourages them.

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