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Re: Three inputs, one required but doesn't matter which one, how to label correctly?

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From: Iaffaldano, Michelangelo
Date: Feb 21, 2014 12:27PM

Hi Nancy, this sounds like a form usability question first and foremost. Could you give us more context?
M.

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From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: February 21, 2014 2:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Three inputs, one required but doesn't matter which one, how to label correctly?

2014-02-20 14:50, Nancy Johnson wrote:

> How do you label fields where there are 3 inputs and one required but
> doesn't matter which one?
>
> I have been using wai-aria for required fields up until now..

Assuming you mean text input fields, i.e. input type=text, it seems that you cannot specify in ARIA that at least one of them needs to be nonempty. You cannot do that with HTML attributes either. You can just declare a field required. And you should not do that here of course.

So you can just say, in text, before the fields, that at least one them needs to be filled out. You can additionally have JavaScript code that checks that this condition is met when the form is to be submitted.

Yucca