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Re: Legend wrap (or not)
From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Aug 30, 2007 3:00AM
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> Jukka K. Korpela
> Now _I_ am offended by your continued odd punctuation, not
> just by your
> (and someone else's) pointless complaints about my polite
> request to use
> normal English punctuation, for accessibility of your messages.
Please...give it a rest.
> Do people actually use such AT in a mode like that?
Unless things have changes in recent versions, JAWS actually requires the user to be in forms mode in order to fill in a form. So yes, a large number of users will invariably use AT in that mode. Hence the importance of making sure legend and label elements provide sufficient information for screen reader users to fill in a form.
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