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Re: A List of Form Elements?

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From: Lewis, Sunshine T.
Date: Mar 14, 2012 11:36AM

Does the dislike of lists for forms also apply to lists for checkboxes
and radio buttons?
<fieldset><legend>
<ul>
<li><input ></li>
<li><input ></li>
</ul>
</fieldset>

Markup seems semantically appropriate to me but I'm curious if that
would introduce the same issues?




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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Green [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:33 PM
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

-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[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
>