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Re: Do screen readers read title attribute if there is no label tag on form elements?

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From: Jason Megginson
Date: Apr 20, 2011 11:33AM


Hi Mike,

I disagree with this claim. ZoomText 9.18 (with speech) does in fact read
form labels structured with label tags. I cannot comment about past
versions (or versions used in your organization) but this version I'm
using works well without title attributes.

Jason Megginson
SSB BART Group
(O):703-637-8964
(C):703-244-7755


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no label tag on form elements?

One added piece of bit of information regarding the use of the title
attribute. The ZoomText screen reader does not support the label tag with
its speech output but it does read the title attribute.

Since we have a large number of ZoomText users among our staff we have
used both the title attribute and the label element when coding our
internal applications. The only risk of this approach is that some screen
readers can be configured by the user to read both the label and the title
and redundant information will be heard.

Mike Moore