Title: Default link title attribute
Last modified: March 6, 2021

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# Default link title attribute

 *  Resolved [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-link-title-attribute/)
 * Hi,
 * I wanted to ask if in future updates, you could remove the title attribute from
   the default “about” link at the bottom of the WAH sidebar.
 * I understand that the custom link functionality is a pro feature, which is fine,
   but WCAG discourages using title attributes for links because it’s confusing 
   for screen readers. It’s something that will get flagged by accessibility audits.
 * There might be people who have some compelling reason to set a title attribute
   with the about link, so leaving that as a pro feature seems okay, but since the
   goal of this plugin is to improve accessibility, having the default version add
   an accessibility “fail” seems counterproductive. (It doesn’t seem like it benefits
   you any either — search engines usually ignore title attributes, so you don’t
   get any search rank “juice” from it.)
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Alex Volkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vol4ikman/)
 * (@vol4ikman)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-link-title-attribute/#post-14142250)
 * Thank you for explaining to me what the goal of this plugin is, and how search
   engines works.
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-link-title-attribute/#post-14142272)
 * I apologize — I’m really not trying to be snarky, just to express what the issue
   is.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-link-title-attribute/#post-14142272)
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