WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Best practices for identifying forms and their fields

for

From: Roger Hudson
Date: May 6, 2013 2:13PM

Hi

While I agree an explicitly associate label is always the preferable way
identify form controls this may not always be possible. I have been testing
(or asking others to test) the use of the title attribute with different
screen readers and browsers on and off since 2008, and have found it to be
well supported. My recent article "Accessible Forms 1: Labels and
identification"
(http://usability.com.au/2013/04/accessible-forms-1-labels-and-identificatio
n/) contains a video showing text input and select input in an imaginary
order form being identified with the title attribute (NVDA and Firefox).
Also a table summarising how it is supported by four different screen
readers.

Best wishes,
Roger