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Re: "<label>" for search field

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: May 18, 2010 10:54AM

I understood that the "title" was OK if there was no other way to
label. I had a situation a few years ago, within an area of the form
where the user could select "Add a Second Item". If this button was
selected an exact copy of the original field was created dynamically.
I tried to see if we could dynamically create a unique ID when
multiple fields were created, but that wasn't possible, so I used the
title tag instead

Nancy

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Tim Harshbarger
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> If I were in this situation, I would probably ask the designers why they
> don't like adding the label.  It might give you insights into how they
> determine a design is clear enough and if they think there is such a
> thing as too much clarity.
>
> The fact is it is easy enough to make this design accessible.  However,
> the extra knowledge might allow you to explain how accessibility should
> fit into their thoughts about what makes a design clear or
> understandable.  That then may make things easier to resolve in the
> future when they want to use a design which you can't make accessible.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Langum,
> Michael J
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 1:51 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: [WebAIM] "<label>" for search field
>
> Our designers don't like the idea of the word "Search" just before our
> standard site "search" field.  They feel that for sighted users, the
> placement just above the words "Advanced Search" in the upper right
> corner of the standard site-wide banner is a clear enough.  And the use
> of "title" attribute in the actual <input> tag is good enough for screen
> reader users.
>
> What is the groups thinking on the adequacy of relying solely on "title"
> attributes to give a prompt for the standard site search field?
> <form action="search.asp" method="GET" name="gs" id="SearchForm">
>  <input name="q" id="q" title="Search the OPM Site" size="26"
> type="text">
>  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go">
> </form>
>
> -- Mike
>
>