Coming from #1849610-48: Improve "add" links accessibility → I realized how important it would be to have a consistent way to have some sort of tooltip functionality without relying on a link title attribute like we do now.
There are a few problems with tooltips:
http://stevenclark.com.au/2008/06/30/title-attributes-on-links-tooltips-...
Often though it comes down to simply duplicating the information provided to a screen reader user. There's also an issue about how support for titles isn't consistent across different Assistive Technology:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/articles/WE05/forms.html
But there is an approach to do this with jQuery which is themable & has been tested for accessibility:
http://api.jqueryui.com/tooltip/
What I'd like to see though is that the tooltip or title doesn't replace the information provided to screen readers with text hidden by element-invisible.
Having a common API that can be leveraged & extended would help Core & other modules.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
I think we should be looking at the popover API here now it looks like there will be a web standard for this
Sorry, what AIP @larowlan?
Also tagging for tooltips as there are a few of these?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/popover starting to see browser support for this and there's a polyfill