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Re: Alternatives to LEGEND for a radio button?

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From: Chris Pearce
Date: Aug 27, 2009 4:40PM


> Stick with the span technique, using display block, relative/absolute
> positioning etc you should be able to achieve any layout required

The span technique is limited especially when the legend needs to be positioned to the left and inputs to the right, I believe this can't be done. Using absolute positioning in most cases isn't suitable as it's taken out of the normal flow of the document. I've given up on trying to achieve this. At the end of the day legends are extremely limited in terms of styling.


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of ben morrison
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 1:23 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Alternatives to LEGEND for a radio button?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, D A< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I'm tempted to consider this an issue and figure out a way to deal
> with the inability to style Legend tags properly. However, this seems
> to maybe be more of a bug/oversight of the screen readers themselves.

Thats front end web development for ya!

Stick with the span technique, using display block, relative/absolute
positioning etc you should be able to achieve any layout required

Ben

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Ben Morrison