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Re: An intersting Problem

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From: Michael Burks
Date: Feb 19, 2013 7:21AM

You make a good point.

However, I looked at the code, and do not see display: none. Also you can see
the checkboxes on the screen. There might be something in the CSS file, but I
cannot get to that, but I would think you would not be able to see the
checkboxes if it was display: none. I am wondering if it has to do with it
being HTML 5 and the support in the various AT we used to test it.

We did submit a question to one of the vendors but do not have an answer as yet.

Sincerely,

Mike Burks




From: Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Tue, February 19, 2013 9:10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] An intersting Problem

On 19/02/2013 13:50, Michael Burks wrote:
>
>
> I have an interesting problem.
>
> 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?

P
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