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Re: Google Forms: Label issues

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 19, 2012 11:39AM

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Karla Kmetz wrote:
> But I cannot figure out how to get into the code view so that I can fix them.

You can't edit the underlying code in Google Docs or Forms. It would
be up to Google to fix these issues.

> Multiple form labels associated with one field:

This is a potential issue because screen reader generally only read
the first label that is encountered. If the first label is the
question text, it may not actually be an issue.

> Orphaned form label

This isn't really an issue. This check has been removed from WAVE5.
While having a label that is not associated to a control may indicate
that a form control *might* be mislabelled or unlabelled, the orphaned
label itself doesn't cause any issues. WAVE would, of course,
separately flag any form controls that are missing labels. This error
can probably be ignored.

> Missing form label: This happens when I do not include Help Text with the
> question.

This seems very odd. I would think the question should be the label
and that lack of help text shouldn't cause any issues.

> Or are Google forms just not accessible?

From what you describe, I'd say there seems to be issues with Google
forms. If you have an example form we could look at, I'm sure we could
provide a more definitive answer.

Jared