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From: Ranti Junus
Date: Jun 11, 2009 6:50PM

Hello All,

I was given a task to assess forms accessibility. There's a
particular form that floored me:
http://staff.lib.msu.edu/junus/form11.html (the actual form is still
located on a closed test server so I copied the code and created the
page here.)

I can understand why the designer wants to group some fields together
with the <fieldset> tag, but I think it's OK to use <div> instead.

For this particular form, I'm struggling to figure out how to make the
"Date and Time Requested" part accessible. From the designer's point
of view, the "1st choice", "2nd choice", and 3rd choice" dates need to
be grouped together. However, each choice has its own set of date,
from:, and to:, and each set has three form elements. It's my
understanding that we cannot do nested <fieldset>.

So, the obvious question is: what do we need to do so this particular
section makes sense when it's read by a screen reader? The more I
look into this, the bigger my headache.

Thank you in advance for any pointers/advice/suggestions that you can share.


thanks,
ranti.

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