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Re: Does WCAG require that when you click a label it checks the checkbox or radio button?

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From: Sean Curtis
Date: Nov 19, 2015 1:37PM

These differences should be raised as bugs and fixed right?

Cheers,

Sean

> On 20 Nov 2015, at 7:00 AM, Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> On 19/11/2015 19:51, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
>>> On 19/11/2015 18:17, Paul Adam wrote:
>>> So WCAG is fine if let's say I make all my buttons operable with the
>>> Escape key only. No enter or space bar must press escape to activate
>>> the buttons. That would not fail keyboard operable? If not, WCAG
>>> indeed has many loopholes.
>>
>> Bingo.
>
> And to expand that: this is why there's a difference between "conformance" and "accessibility" in many cases.
>
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