Re: HIG question

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:22, Loban A Rahman wrote:
> I couldn't find an answer to this question in the HIG.
> 
> I want to add tooltips to my brand new HIG-compliant dialogs. Do I add
> them to the labels of the controls or the controls themselves?

Good question :)  You might even consider adding tooltips to both,
particularly if the label is for a group of controls rather than a
single control.

However, bear in mind that labels are not generally focusable, so a
keyboard-only user has no way to pop up the tooltip for a label. 
However, they can pop up the tooltip for a control by focussing it, then
pressing Ctrl+F1.  So associating tooltips with the controls themselves
is certainly the more accessible approach.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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