What are they called?

[François Chaplais]

Le 1 mars 2010 à 18:30, Joe Lewis Wilkins a écrit :

> Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the "hints" we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more easily; however, I can't remember what they are called. 
> 
"useless stuff on a touch device" ;)