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Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Aug 16, 2012 5:05PM

Paul,

> In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!
Would the site happened to be written in ASP? I have seen a few blog
posts saying <asp:label> can be used push data to the page, like PHP's
echo()

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Paul J. Adam < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
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> In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!
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> 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.
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> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> Deque Systems
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