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Re: Forms as lists

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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 2, 2010 12:42PM

Unfortunately this is becoming very common, and the UK's largest website
design company does it on every project. There is no rationale for it and we
flag it as a WCAG non-compliance every time we test a website.

It adds lots of noise for screen reader users and it makes the form less
understandable when viewed without styles.

Steve Green
Director
Test Partners Ltd



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Chris Price
Sent: 02 September 2010 12:04
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Forms as lists

On 2 September 2010 11:26, Kevin White < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:


> My opinion is that this is not an accurate use of semantic markup,
> however, I am aware that some have argued that a form is a list of
questions.
>

Sorry I can't be of practical help here but I can't see how anyone can say
that a form can be semantically described as a list. Almost anything can be
a list if you wish to represent it that way but isn't that more conceptual
than semantic? You could build your form in a table saying it was a matrix
but that wouldn't make it tabular.

Just my penny's worth.

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