[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35566: Remove title attributes: Tag cloud widget uses title to display topic count

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#35566: Remove title attributes: Tag cloud widget uses title to display topic count
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 Reporter:  adamsoucie    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility
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Changes (by Samantha Miller.):

 * version:   => trunk


Comment:

 I'm currently at WordCamp London Contributor Day, and the accessibility
 team is looking at this ticket.

 Suggestions:
 - Use HTML unordered list for tag cloud with an ARIA label to explain the
 content. This will be translatable.
 - Remove title attribute for links. This currently contains the post count
 (topics) for the tag. Replace with screen-reader-text. This will continue
 to be translatable.
 - For sighted users, trigger a popup with the post count on either hover
 or focus. This will require CSS, which can be dequeued.
 - Change the font size units to ems instead of pts.
 - Allow the minimum and maximum font size to be filterable by the theme
 author

 We are proposing to build this as a future plugin which replaces the core
 widget. We don’t want to break older themes that don’t support screen
 reader text.

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