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Re: Best practices for identifying forms and their fields

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From: Dave Merrill
Date: May 6, 2013 1:04PM

Great, thanks

Dave Merrill


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Dave Merrill wrote:
>
> > You're saying that a field's title WILL be read if no label is present,
> as
> > in your search box example, right?
>
> Correct.
>
> > If so, then in the context of an
> > accessibility review tool in a CMS, the logic would be:
> > - If there's a label with text, show it
> > - If not, and there's a title, show it, but suggest that there should be
> a
> > label if that's workable
> > - If there's neither, show both label and title as missing, suggesting
> that
> > lable should be used if that's workable
>
> Looks good to me. If there is visible label text, it should be
> associated to the control. If not, then a title attribute can be used
> to describe the control. If neither, then the function of the control
> will be ambiguous.
>
> Jared
> > > >



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Dave Merrill