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Re: Section 508 - Form Field Label

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From: Jason Megginson
Date: Nov 12, 2010 8:21AM

No, there is no explicit association between the label and the checkbox. I
assume the asterisk is a required field? If so, include that in explicit
label markup. An id attribute must be set in the checkbox. That "id"
attribute must match the "for" attribute of the corresponding LABEL tag.

For Example:
<div *title='CBP'>*
*<input type='checkbox' igchk='1' id="someID" class='igt_align'><label
for="someID">*<span igtxt='1' class="
">CBP</span></label></div>



Jason Megginson
SSB BART Group
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Subject: [WebAIM] Section 508 - Form Field Label

Below is (simplified) code where TITLE is an attribute of a DIV that
contains a form field. Is this an acceptable way to label a form field
for
Section 508 Compliance?



<div *title='CBP'>*

*<input type='checkbox' igchk='1' class='igt_align'>*<span igtxt='1'
class="
">CBP</span></div>