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Re: Forms as lists

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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 2, 2010 1:13PM

My rationale is F43: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 due to using
structural markup in a way that does not represent relationships in the
content - http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/F43

Unfortunately the WCAG focus almost entirely on the addition of appropriate
structural markup. Apart from F43 very little is said about the prevention
of superfluous or inappropriate structural markup. For instance we are
starting to see nonsense such as breadcrumbs being marked up as definition
lists or fieldsets around Submit buttons. F43 appears to be the only means
we have of fighting back against these things.

Regards,
Steve