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From: Carla Hawks
Date: Mar 16, 2007 1:20PM

Cheryl
I have just completed a form like you are describing. You may look at the
source code:

http://www.csufresno.edu/ccchhs/institutes_programs/CVHPI/activities/leaderE
val.shtml

Good luck,
Carla

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Microsoft experimenting with CAPTCHAs [was Re: I hate
captchas] (Tim Beadle)
2. help with a form please (Cheryl Amato)
3. Re: help with a form please (Travis Roth)
4. Re: help with a form please (Chris Price)
5. Re: help with a form please (Roberto Modica)
6. Re: help with a form please (Chris Price)
7. Re: Microsoft experimenting with CAPTCHAs [was Re: I hate
captchas] (Alastair Campbell)
8. Re: Microsoft experimenting with CAPTCHAs [was Re: I hate
captchas] (Joshue O Connor)
9. Re: help with a form please (Roberto Modica)
10. Re: help with a form please (Jukka K. Korpela)
11. Re: help with a form please (Chris Price)
12. Re: help with a form please (Chris Price)
13. Course Genie and accessibility (Gary Williamson)
14. Re: Course Genie and accessibility
(John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:58:11 +0000
From: "Tim Beadle" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Microsoft experimenting with CAPTCHAs [was Re: I
hate captchas]
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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On 15/03/07, tedd < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Err, as I said -- "OpenID" -- as found here: http://openid.net/
>
> As for AOL and M$, I may be mistaken, but I seriously doubt that they
> will provide anything leading edge.

AOL are making the AIM Pages an OpenID provider, as have Six Apart's
Vox and many other sites.

> That's part of the problem -- a user may have to register with
> several providers to cover all the places where s/he may want to post.

No, no, no. Several providers make themselves OpenID providers, but
they're all OpenID compatible (that's the beauty of it - OpenID is
decentralised, unlike MS Passport) and so you only have to have a
minimum of one OpenID in order to log in to OpenID-enabled sites (such
as Magnolia - http://ma.gnolia.com/)

> Am I wrong?

Not sure, but you might want to check Simon Willison's OpenID
screencast and other blog posts, which explain it all rather well:

"OpenID's biggest problem is its learning curve. Using it as actually
really simple, but if you're not technical the amount of stuff you
have to know before you can understand it is enormous. If you are
technical, it just doesn't seem like it should work?there are a bunch
of questions that come up every time OpenID is discussed anywhere
("but surely there's nothing to stop someone else from spoofing your
ID") which OpenID has answers for, but which are easily
misunderstood."
http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/22/screencast/
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/12/slidecast/

Best regards,

Tim


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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:39:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Cheryl Amato < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: [WebAIM] help with a form please
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I have a form (not my design) that needs be made accessible. You will see by
the code that there is a combination of radio buttons and input fields. I
have included a bit of the code as that may be easier than any explanation I
can give. I've never seen this kind of setup before and am unsure as to how
it should be handled. I know that <label> must be added to the input fields
especially since they are in different table rows. But what do I do with the
radio buttons? They are "sharing" the same text label.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

<table border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><b>Candidate:</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="radio" name="ctrecipient" value="ct_acct">&nbsp;&nbsp;
Committee:</td>
<td> <INPUT size="25" name="iacct_name" ID="iacct_name"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">or</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="radio" name="ctrecipient" value="ct_nm">&nbsp;&nbsp;
Candidate: </td>
<td><table border="0">
<tr>
<td>First Name: </td>
<td>Last Name: </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><INPUT size="25" name="icand_fname" ID="icand_fname"></td>
<td><INPUT size="25" name="icand_lname" ID="icand_lname"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>


Cheryl Amato
Trusted Technologies


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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:40:38 -0500
From: "Travis Roth" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] help with a form please
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Hi,
Since a label tag cannot be shared amongst input controls, an option would
be to create redundant labels and then use CSS to place them off-screen.

Currently screen readers support the use of the same ID attribute on
multiple controls referencing one label, but since technically an ID is to
be specific to an individual control this is an illegal practice. And you
never know when AT will stop supporting this.



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I have a form (not my design) that needs be made accessible. You will see by
the code that there is a combination of radio buttons and input fields. I
have included a bit of the code as that may be easier than any explanation I
can give. I've never seen this kind of setup before and am unsure as to how
it should be handled. I know that <label> must be added to the input fields
especially since they are in different table rows. But what do I do with the
radio buttons? They are "sharing" the same text label.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

<table border="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><b>Candidate:</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="radio" name="ctrecipient" value="ct_acct">&nbsp;&nbsp;
Committee:</td> <td> <INPUT size="25" name="iacct_name"
ID="iacct_name"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">or</td> </tr> <tr>
<td><input type="radio" name="ctrecipient" value="ct_nm">&nbsp;&nbsp;
Candidate: </td> <td><table border="0">
<tr>
<td>First Name: </td>
<td>Last Name: </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><INPUT size="25" name="icand_fname" ID="icand_fname"></td>
<td><INPUT size="25" name="icand_lname" ID="icand_lname"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>


Cheryl Amato
Trusted Technologies