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Re: Alternatives to LEGEND for a radio button?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Sep 8, 2009 11:30AM

Hi Andrew

I wasn't aware of that, the only thing I can see
is element access, would that be it? I dont like
to turn anything off since I need to hear
everything that is going on because I do accessibility audits and hand code.

cheers

Geof


At 12:50 PM 9/8/2009, you wrote:
>Geoff,
>Are you aware that you can turn off the voicing
>of the legend for controls contained in the fieldset?
>
>I think that Evan said it best earlier - that
>the legend with the fieldset is currently the
>best way to establish a semantic association
>between the radios or checkboxes and the group
>label, and how it is voiced is up to the screen reader application.
>
>Even if all web developers decided that they
>would all skip fieldset and legend and would all
>use an HTML heading before a set of radio
>buttons, you still would need to deal with how
>any given assistive technology supports that
>convention. If you don't like the way JAWS
>reads HTML, you should absolutely raise the issue with Freedom Scientific.
>
>Thanks,
>AWK
>
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>
>Adobe Systems
>
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