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From: Jesse Hausler
Date: Mar 13, 2012 4:06PM

Thanks for the advice everyone!

Jesse

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Steve Green
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:33 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] A List of Form Elements?

I am also totally opposed to the use of lists for forms. It's semantically incorrect and it's an appalling user experience for screen reader users - the additional verbiage decreases comprehensibility rather than increasing it.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: 13 March 2012 00:43
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] A List of Form Elements?

I'm not a fan of list-items in forms, either. I've rarely seen it done and have often argued against it. When I'm in a form, I find the indication of list-items distracting and disorienting from the task at hand. Honestly, it just feels semantically wrong to me.

Jennifer

At 04:18 PM 3/12/2012, you wrote:
>I'm not a fan of lists to differentiate form items. You adequately note
>the disadvantages, which I think outweigh any perceived benefits.
>In most cases, the form is navigated from form control to form control
>anyway (i.e., hitting the Tab key), so the only real advantage (that
>the number of items is identified) often doesn't occur anyway.
>
>The <div> markup could probably be simplified even more with <form
>class="aform"> <div>...<label>...<input>...</div>
></form>
>and
>.aform div { }
>to define the necessary styling.
>
>Jared Smith
>WebAIM.org
>