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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Jun 18, 2013 3:02PM

Thanks, Jared. You're correct that I did ask a very similar question
before. It's a slightly different angle, though.

It sounds like what you're saying is that if the text of a link isn't
explicit enough on its own, we should be able to rely on the reading order
for a user to be able to determine that a generic link in a list is related
to the sentence, phrase or paragraph right before the list, and still
conform to WCAG Level AA.

And sorry, I didn't mean that actually using <legend> would be appropriate
at all. I just meant that it would be nice if something like that existed
for lists. But it doesn't. Now i remember that you mentioned <lh> before,
which would have been nice if it had stuck.

Thanks,
David


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:55 PM, David Ashleydale wrote:
>
> > Is there a good way to code a list and its "heading" so that they are
> > programmatically associated?
>
> You brought up this question here a couple months ago and I think
> there were some good responses then -
> http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?threadX14
>
> In HTML, we're pretty much limited to standard heading elements.
> Regardless, I don't believe that 2.4.4 requires such a programmatic
> association anyway - I think the natural reading flow of the content
> is sufficient.
>
> Your usage of <legend> for this would not be appropriate and would not
> provide any utility.
>
> Jared
> > > >