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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 2, 2010 12:53PM

The rationale in the article is incorrect. The appropriate containers for
form controls are <form> and <fieldset> elements, not list elements. A form
isn't a list of form controls any more than a paragraph is a list of
sentences or a page is a list of paragraphs.

The use of ordered lists in his example suggests that he doesn't understand
semantics, because the order of the form controls is not relevant - the
meaning would be the same regardless of their order.

I am disappointed that ALA would publish an article like this.

Steve Green
Director
Test Partners Ltd