WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Optimum position of asterisk on web forms

for

From: Tim Beadle
Date: Oct 10, 2008 3:10AM

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Tim Beadle < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> "For example the star used on labels to indicate a field is required,
> NEEDS to be an image with the alt text 'required'"

Sorry - I should have clarified that statement is in the context of
talking about CSS background images - i.e. (according to Natalie) it's
not accessible enough to use (say) <span
class="required">Required</span> then apply an image replacement trick
in CSS; it needs to be an img element.

Regards,

Tim