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Re: form labels vs label in first option tag?

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Oct 31, 2012 3:56PM

I was referring to aria-label="Choose", which is invisible to sighted users.

This gets combined with the first Option element in the Select
automatically.

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From: "Angela French" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] form labels vs label in first option tag?


> "Choose" without a label doesn't allow the sighted user to know the nature
> of what they are choosing.
> Here is a similar example on amazon.com, though with a text field search
> box:
> http://www.amazon.com/New-Used-Textbooks-Books/b/ref=sv_b_6?ie=UTF8&;nodeF5600 .
> How does a screen reader user know what is supposed to be entered into the
> text field before entering the field?
>
> Angela French
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