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Re: Best practices for identifying forms and their fields

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From: Dave Merrill
Date: May 6, 2013 5:24AM

Hi folks, I have a couple of questions about labeling forms and their
fields.

1. Is it considered best practice for forms to have a title attribute, to
identify the purpose of the overall form itself? When evaluating site
accessibility, should form titles be considered at all? How else should
forms themselves be labelled? If by a header tag, should it be inside the
form, or immediately preceding it?

2. For form fields, clearly a label tag is best practice, but should a
title attribute ever be used?

Thanks!

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Dave Merrill