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Re: WCAG2: Form fields and labels

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 5, 2015 4:31AM

On 05/02/2015 11:24, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If a page contains a form field with a label that the developer has
> attempted to associate but has typed the field's ID incorrectly inside
> the FOR attribute, hence the association doesn't work, can I fail this
> under checkpoint 4.1.2 (name, role, value)?

Yes...regardless of good intention (maybe just a typo?), the end effect
is that the label is not associated correctly, so the form field lacks a
programmatically associated name.

"Do, or do not. There is no try" or something...

P
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