In reply to Justin Tadlock.

I bet if you wrote a post called “Title Attribute Bad For SEO”, folks would drop them like a bad habit.

Well that's the truth.

While I think you're right that there's nothing explicitly bad about the title attribute itself, my concern is always that it makes think people they can use it to make up for bad link text, fix accessibility problems, affect SEO, etc. I've see all those things actually happen. If people have a need for tooltips, we should make sure that they provide those in a way that actually works for everyone.