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Re: Labels for phone number fields

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 4, 2007 1:10PM

On 9/4/07, Keith Parks < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm wondering what the standard practice is for labeling phone number
> inputs?

I've seen "telephone number area code", "first three digits of
telephone number", and "last four digits of telephone number". Of
course, this won't work with international numbers, but neither does
your form. You'd also need additional info, such as a field set to
better clarify

To really answer your questions, the standard practice is to use one
text box instead of three. Doing so would certainly make everything
easier for the user and much more accessible. If it's an issue of
formatting, the burden shouldn't be put on the end user to do
something that should be done on the back end (simply strip out
anything that is not a number, then reformat into whatever form you
want).

Jared Smith
WebAIM