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Forms Without a Submit Action? Forms without Form Tags?

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From: Susan Grossman
Date: Sep 9, 2010 6:56AM

I have a validation point that I have to pass, I know that because a
validator says so it doesn't mean it's the best thing to do, but in this
case, I have a corporate requirement for something that's going to work with
US Federal Government and have been told it needs to pass this validator.

Development is using drop down menus and check boxes to change a display, so
it's just showing things already on the page. These are scripted and
accessible by tabbing. Since they had to put in ID's and labels with For
attributes, they needed to add in a form tag. Once they added a from tag,
it's requiring some type of form submit, and there's no submission on this
page.

Can the form tag not be used, labels with For attributes removed and changed
to using title tags in the drop downs and check box inputs and still be
accessible? It's seems to sound alright in Readers (NVDA & JAWS in regular
mode), but I'm not a power user and don't want to miss "consequences"

Thanks

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*Susan R. Grossman*
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