screenreader survey, and title attribute

[jadelennox]

1. I'm going to add this to the "to document" wiki, but people should understand that the "title" attribute is not a tool to convey accessibility. Most users, screenreader or not, never see title attributes.
   
   • Survey of results of assistive technology users testing title attribute access.
   • A series of essays on "The title attribute - what is it good for?"
   
   Except in form controls, title attributes are useless to 99% of users -- including sighted users, since most people don't hover long enough to see the tooltip.
   
2. WebAIM has published the results of their second screenreader survey. Summary of things that interested me:
   • JAWS is still in the lead, but NVDA and VoiceOver are gaining.
   • IE7 and IE8 are most common browsers, alas.
   • most people have JavaScript on
   • The answers about alt text are complex.
   • The most annoying accessibility problems that would be a problem on dreamwidth are poorly named link text, keyboard access, and bad forms.
   • On a lengthy page, many users navigate via the headings on the page.
   • There is no typical screen reader user.