More Keyword Opportunities in Accessibility Related Elements

The title attribute, which can be added to a variety of tags, can provide further description of content on the page and more opportunities for inclusion of keywords. The title attribute displays a small tool tip box when the user mouses over an element such a link.

<a href=”about-us.html” title=”Revivalx Project”>About Us</a>

Although the link label is short to facilitate usability , the title attribute provides users searching for information on the W3C’s WCAG standards may search with the acronym, or the full phrase” Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.” If your content displays only the acronym, searches for the full phrase will not point users to your page even though it may contain just what they are looking for. Using the acronym tag and the the title attribute you can deliver the content in both simultaneously.

Abbreviations can be handled in a similar fashion.

In standards-complaint browsers like Firefox users will see a dotted line under these tags, tipping them off to further information available by mousing over the text. Internet Explorer, however, does not style the text, so you’ll need to use some CSS to provide visual distinction to users.