Hide Tooltips on Hover – Clean Up Title Attributes Without Losing Accessibility

Description

Remove native browser tooltips while preserving accessibility.

By default, when you hover over an element with a title attribute, the browser displays a native tooltip. These tooltips often don’t match your website’s design and can be distracting or redundant.

Hide Titles On Hover solves this by replacing all title attributes with aria-label attributes. This preserves accessibility for screen readers while preventing tooltips from appearing on hover.

🎯 No settings required. Just install and activate.

✅ Key Features

🔧 Automatically removes all native browser tooltips

♿ Fully accessible via aria-label for screen readers

⚡ Zero configuration – plug and play

🌐 Works site-wide out of the box

🔍 Want to disable it on specific pages?
While the plugin doesn’t have built-in settings, you can selectively disable it using the free plugin Freesoul Deactivate Plugins.

This allows you to deactivate Hide Titles On Hover only on pages where you still want tooltips to appear.

🚀 Upgrade to PRO – Custom Title Tooltip

Looking for more control and a better user experience?

Check out the PRO version: Custom Title Tooltip

With Custom Title Tooltip, you can:

✅ Keep tooltips but fully customize their appearance

🎨 Match tooltip design to your theme with controls for:

Colors

Font size

Radius

Tooltip position

and more!

How to get started with Custom Title Tooltip:

Install and activate Custom Title Tooltip

Go to Custom Title Tooltip in your WordPress admin menu

Configure your styles and save changes

🙌 Ideal for:

Designers who want full visual control

Accessibility-conscious developers

Minimalists who prefer a cleaner user experience

Reviews

This is it

By lstplcwnr on December 19, 2024

Forget snippets and js query what ever. All you need is this.

When developers are good this happens

By Cristian J. Hidalgo (sircam73) on December 19, 2023

This kind of plugin is the result of someone with a high level of responsibility, the kind of work that without any doubts we will support.

Fantastic !!!

By nicogiussa on April 19, 2023

Great Plugin !!

Such a relief

By RussWilley on April 4, 2023

So annoying that these tooltips appear by default. Such a relief that this plugin exists.

Thank you, Jose.

Fantastic!

By santifri on February 20, 2023

It does what it is supposed to do and support is excellent too

Great

By muellerwerbung on December 5, 2022

Works exactly as desired!

Works great

By Daria33 on September 13, 2022

The plugin does exactly what it's supposed to - very helpful, thank you!

Works Nicely

By studioactiv8 on April 30, 2022

So browsers have become much more sensitive to display the titles on images. Generally titles get added automatically when you upload images and this plugin works at hiding them. It might be cool if it worked just on image titles and or links so you could choose. It works and it was a great fix instead of going through a whole site and clearing out image titles.. whew.

Working perfectly

By guillaume69 on March 6, 2022

Thanks Jose!

Changelog

1.0.1

Fix: PHP warnings

1.0.0

*Removed: Email to admin
*Checked: WordPress 6.7

0.0.5

*Fix: PHP warning

0.0.4

*Checked: WordPress 6.4

0.0.3

*FIx: Not working for elements added after the page is fully loaded if they aren’t links

0.0.2

*FIx: Not working for elements added after the page is fully loaded

0.0.1

*Initial release