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Re: Label for a set of radio buttons

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jun 11, 2013 3:08AM

2013-06-11 0:20, Dave Merrill wrote:

> "You could put the question in the legend, or make it a heading
> element, or just a paragraph (p element). But this has no crucial
> impact, and it has nothing to do with labelling things."
>
> Hmmm, don't know that I buy that. A disembodied radio with a clearly
> labeled value means nothing without the question it's an answer to.

The question of course precedes the control(s) for answering it.
Anything else would be thoroughly confusing, even absurd.

> If AT
> users are supposed to link them based on context, fine, just trying to
> confirm that that's the state of the art.

Everyone is supposed to read the question before considering the options
for answers. We cannot really cover all the odd things that people might
do when filling out a formal; it is sufficiently challenging to make
normal, sequential filling accessible and usable.

Yucca