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Re: Unlabelled form field with adjacent button as label?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 4, 2015 4:46AM

On 04/03/2015 11:42, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:
> 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.

The success criterion is not aimed at users of assistive technologies,
but at users that can see the screen/page. To them, having the adjacent
button is a sufficient form of labelling.

In general, SCs don't always cover all possible types of
abilities/disabilities.

P
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