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Re: An intersting Problem

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 19, 2013 7:10AM

On 19/02/2013 13:50, Michael Burks wrote:
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> I have an interesting problem.
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> I am testing a page done in HTML 5. There are checkboxes which are not read by
> screen readers as checkboxes. In fact it does not even recognize them as form
> fields. However when you turn off the CSS it works just fine. Has anyone
> encountered this situation?

Could it be that the CSS sets the actual checkboxes to display:none and
fakes the nice-looking ones with a simple div/span coupled with a click
behavior?

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Patrick H. Lauke