I’ve noticed a growing trend to try and make the content from some popups or tooltips directly keyboard accessible on web pages with buttons that reveal the content. This is good but what’s not so good is the naming of these buttons. In pretty much every situation where I’ve encountered this, the name starts with the phrase “tooltip.” For example on a financial web site I use when obtaining a ticker quote, the button in question reads “Tooltip for Quick Quote Disclosure.”
This is not an isolated situation and maybe it is just because I’ve been using a range of financial web sites lately but it seems very common in those experiences of late.
This, as with most accessible names, would be better at minimum to put the unique part of the name first. In this case, “quick quote disclosure.”
There is obviously more too this, such as whether the word tooltip is needed at all, proper roles and more but this basic naming syntax makes a big difference in efficient access to the content. The unique should generally come first in an accessible name.
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