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Fancy tooltips that use popover and anchor positioning are great. But sometimes all you need is a trustworthy title HTML attribute for a text-only tooltip. 😭 Only problem is: it can't be styled! Do you want these tooltips to be stylable? Maybe with a ::tooltip pseudo. Let me know your use cases!

god, it would fix so many WCAG issues

And create a thousand more? 😁

Was just thinking how its usage would skyrocket if it becomes styleable.

I mean, we'd need to fix the accName problem, but also a boy can dream.

I may be missing your point I think. My thinking is that it took long to convince (most, I hope?) devs to not use the attribute because the tooltip is not accessible to all users. Making it styleable is like signaling that the only usability issue was with the visual styling, if that makes sense.

Genuine question, I'm not super aware of the accessibility issues here, can you say what they are?

Replying to myself: tooltips aren't visible on keyboard focus, or when using a touch device. Any others?