1273808 - When adding a link to an internal page add its summary as title

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

What problem would this feature solve?
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Adding the summary of the linked article as 'title' attribute to the link allows users to get a quick overview of the contents of the linked page without actually having to navigate to it.

Doing this automatically would avoid the need to do it via macros like {{domxref}} or {{cssxref}} or manually.

Who has this problem?
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All visitors to MDN

How do you know that the users identified above have this problem?
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Didn't run any experiment.

How are the users identified above solving this problem now?
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Authors either need to use macros like {{domxref}} or {{cssxref}} or add the title manually.

Do you have any suggestions for solving the problem? Please explain in detail.
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This should happen automatically when selecting an article form the 'Article Title Lookup / Link Text'.

Is there anything else we should know?
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There may be cases in which this may be redundant (like on overview pages where the links already have an explanation below them).

In cases of very long summaries this may rather be disturbing. Though it's easy to remove the title in those cases via the link dialog.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Note that this would leave existing links untouched.

An automatic update once a page's cache is emptied would solve this, though that would mean to change the markup of the page dynamically (which sounds impracticable) or to fetch the summary dynamically via an AJAX call.

Sebastian

Comment 2

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Needs an experiment to measure performance (Kuma vs KumaScript) and research on how accessible title attributes are.

Comment 3

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

My concern was that screen readers would read out the whole title value and that it would interrupt the user's ability to consume the document. That's not the case.[1] 

This information will be mostly unavailable to users since the title attribute is not exposed in all browsers or to touch or keyboard users but it is not necessary information so it will be a nice enhancement to those who can use it :)


[1] https://silktide.com/i-thought-title-text-improved-accessibility-i-was-wrong/

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.