%Accessibility% Attributes
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What are the Accessibility Attributes?
These attributes allow attachment of rendering and accessibility information to most of the elements used in document rendering. The TITLE attribute allows descriptive narrative information to be attached to elements (which are not necessarily rendered) while Style Sheet attributes facilitate attachment of rendering rules to displayed elements.

This attribute category draws its inspiration from a Parameter Entity category defined in HTML 4.x called "%coreattrs". This category only includes the CLASS, ID, STYLE, and TITLE attributes. The ACCESSKEY and TABINDEX elements that I included in this %Core% category are also present in HTML 4.x, but not used as widely as these other "%coreattrs". Beginning in IE 4.0 however, the use of ACCESSKEY and TABINDEX was expanded to cover most HTML elements, so it seemed natural to combine them with the other "%coreattrs".

Accessibility Attributes
Accesskey
[2|3|3.2|4] [X1|X1.1] [IE4|N6B2|O7|S1.2]
Required? No
Description:
This is a method of giving access/focus to an active HTML element using a keyboard character. This is a common GUI paradigm also known as a "keyboard shortcut" or "keyboard accelerator" A single character is used as the value of this attribute. In addition, a platform-dependent key is usually used in combination with the ACCESSKEY character to access the functionality of the element.

In Internet Explorer 5.0, "non-active" elements (all elements listed except A, AREA, OBJECT and form field elements) can use an ACCESSKEY to give focus to an element if it also specifies a TABINDEX attribute/value.
Values:
A single, case-insensitive alphanumeric character from a browser's character set.
Disabled
[2|3|3.2|4] [X1|X1.1] [IE4B1|N6B1|O5|S1]
Required? No
Description:
This is a stand-alone attribute which indicates the element is initially non-functional or can not receive focus. It is usually indicated visually by greying out the content of the element.
Values: NA
Tabindex
[2|3|3.2|4] [X1|X1.1] [IE4|N6B3|O7|S1]
Required? No
Description:
"Tabbing" is a method of giving access/focus to an active HTML element using a standard keyboard sequence. All the active elements in a document can be cycled through using this sequence (ex: Windows TAB key.) The order of the active elements in this cycle is usually the order they occur in the document, but the TABINDEX attribute allows a different order to be established. The use of this attribute should create the following tabbing order cycle if the browser supports the attribute:
  1. Active elements using the TABINDEX attribute with positive integers are navigated first. Low values are navigated first.
  2. Active elements not specifying any TABINDEX attribute

Other constraints also apply:
Values: Positive or negative integers. IE 5.0 documentation lists a valid value range of -32767 to 32767.
Title
[2|3|3.2|4] [X1|X1.1] [IE4B1|N6B1|O3|S1.2]
Required? No
Description:
This attribute is used to give further information regarding the contents of an element. Interactive elements such as hyperlinks, images, or form fields may use this attribute to inform the user about the nature of the resource, or to specify help information if requested by the user.

The methods used to render the content of this attribute for this should follow the standard guidelines for the system, but may vary between browsers and platforms. For instance, visual browsers will frequently display the title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an object). Audio user agents may speak the title information in a similar context.
Values: An alphanumeric string.
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