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Re: Radio Buttons in a Data Table

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From: Tony Olivero
Date: Jul 10, 2012 5:04PM

Believe me, I understand having to work within design parameters. My concern
is only over how to best make it accessible.

Your best bet might be to do a combination of title and off-screen text.
That is: put the title attribute on your radio buttons and then use
offscreen text on the first one to tell the user that if there program is
not reading the radio button value to switch it to using title instead of
label.

It's definitely a workable solution, just moderately more involved for the
user, but that may not be an entirely bad thing either. :)

I'd love to say use ARIA labeled by and be done with it, because I think
it's the best solution for a table like this, but I know Window-eyes at
least flat out doesn't support it yet.


Tony