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Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?

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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Aug 14, 2012 5:25PM

It almost seems like it should be a failure but I guess it does not affect a screen reader since they only can pull up a list of inputs, not labels without an input.

In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!

I think I should still flag it as not following web standards coding practices at least, but I guess it's not something you could say is a specific WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure.

Paul J. Adam
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Deque Systems
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