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Re: Unlabelled form field with adjacent button as label?

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: Mar 4, 2015 4:42AM

Hi Steve,

If I'm ploughing through a large form, or looking for a particular
form element, I'll pull up the JAWS forms list (Insert+F5). If an
element doesn't have a label, JAWS will say "unlabelled 1",
"unlabelled 2" etc. for each consecutive unlabelled field.

Adding ARIA-LABEL or ARIA-LABELLEDBY to the mix fixes this problem in
JAWS 16 (I haven't tested older versions).

I've knocked up a quick set of examples to illustrate this. It's at:

http://behindtheyellowline.org.uk/examples/unlabelled.htm

Example 1 (sufficient technique = unlabelled textbox) and example 4
(using ARIA-DESCRIBEDBY) bring up "unlabelled X" in the JAWS forms
list.

KR, Lynn

On 01/03/2015, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 1 March 2015 at 16:08, Lynn Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I understand that sufficient techniques aren't the only way. But
>> I wish that this particular one didn't exist, as I don't think an
>> adjacent button should serve as a label by itself.
>>
>
>
> why?
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
> > > >