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Re: Forms as lists

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 2, 2010 9:51AM

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM, adam solomon
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It's pretty clear that a form has to be in a fieldset, strictly speaking.

No. Because the fieldset legend is announced for each form element
within the fieldset, placing all forms in a fieldset is likely to
cause much more overhead and noise than placing form items in lists. A
fieldset is intended "to group thematically related controls and
labels". There certainly is no requirement that they be used for all
forms. They should generally only be reserved for when a higher level
legend is necessary for the grouping to be understandable. This should
be used for groups of checkboxes and radio buttons, and a few other
less common cases.

Jared Smith