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Re: Are fieldset and legend still relevant?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Dec 30, 2014 7:52PM

> by scripting. In my opinion, scriptin should be the exception, not the rule for making technology accessible. As Thomas said, test to the nstandards and guidelines.

While I agree that we shouldn't be measuring against specific ATs -- techniques have to be practical -- that is, they have to be accessibility supported. This assertion is in place to prevent developers from creating some framework that exposes information or makes a claim to expose information in programmatic ways but the ways are not practically usable by AT. For example, I could claim that divs on my webpage use the title attribute to expose information to screen reader users. In reality a title attribute on a div is not reasonable way of exposing information at this time so the community has determined that a technique such as this is not a sufficient technique.

Jonathan