Thread Subject: Re: Suggested update to 6.1.Isowecanremove6.1.B and 6.1.C (forms & scripting)
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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Thu, Jun 07 2007 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Suggested update to 6.1.Isowecanremove6.1.B and 6.1.C (forms & scripting)
"name" doesn't mean HTML name attribute in the 508 standard.
AWK
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> To: 'TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee'
> Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Suggested update to
> 6.1.Isowecanremove6.1.B and 6.1.C (forms & scripting)
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> Andrew's response to Don:
> >What you're missing is the name for the control. In the current
> >language "the name and role shall be programmatically determinable,
> >states, properties, and values that can be set by the user shall be
> >programmatically determinable and can be programmatically
> set". This
> >addresses the issue you're describing, doesn't it?
> Andrew in the code below, the name and id for the input
> control is set and is programmatically determinable but it
> is not the same thing as the label.
> So in case the LABEL element is missing then there is a problem.
> <input type="text" size="35" maxlength ="50" name="eMail1"
> id="eMail1" />
>
> Sailesh Panchang
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