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From: drlaw351@aol.com
Date: Sep 13, 2010 7:45PM

-----Original Message-----
From: William Lawrence < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 7:09 pm
Subject: Re: are there any website builders with 508 compliance built
in?

Did you mean for your question to go to the whole of the webaim list
and not just me? if so, try again at <EMAIL REMOVED>

Otherwise, I'd try out wordpress.com for doing what you want. They
have lots of options, many of them not helpful, but most of them very
helpful.

Good luck!
William
--
William Lawrence
Accessibility Engineer


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I have been searing the web for thie answer to
> this question.
> Is there a wbsite builder that has 508 compliance
> built in?  I used sitebuilder on Yahoo and
> don't know if it really does a good job of
> being compliant.
> I am visually impaired and my website it
> lowvisionliving.com.  I want to redo it
> and cannot find a website builder with
> 508 compliance.
> Do you know of any?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Lawrence < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Sun, Sep 12, 2010 4:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Do you need to have a label on a form field
when it
> has a default value?
>
> Default text in the value attribute implicitly labels the form input.
> Form input elements must always be explicitly labeled, either with a
> label element or with the title attribute of the input element.
>
>
> Cheers!,
> William
> --
> William Lawrence
> Accessibility Engineer
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Jukka K. Korpela < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>>
>> adam solomon wrote:
>>
>>> Labels are always advisable, but not required.
>>
>> Depends on your definition for "required" and "always". An input
field
>> should always have a label, for accessibility. (What some
>
> "accessibility
>>
>> recommendations" say is a different issue, bu they generally agree.)
>
> For a
>>
>> submit button, a label is seldom needed, or useful.
>>
>>> Where  a label is not desired by the developer,
>>
>> Why would the desired of a developer matter?
>>
>>> WCAG indicates that a title attribute will
>>> suffice in its stead.
>>
>> If it says so, and I cannot see where it does, it is simply bad
>
> advice. The
>>
>> title attribute is by definition an optional advisory title, and in
>> practice, only a small fraction of users will ever notice its
>
> presence.
>>
>> --
>> Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
>>
>>