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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Mar 13, 2015 12:08PM

Hello Sarah,

Fieldset and legend is useful if the screen reader user is going to be in
"focus mode." But, screen readers no longer require that mode for radio
buttons or checkboxes. For this example, I would suggest that questions be
marked up in headings so that the user can easily navigate from one to the
other. A question followed by the choices should clearly indicate to the
user the relationship between questions and their corresponding choices.

Even if you markup questions via fieldsets and legends, the user should not
encounter verbose repetitions if he/she uses arrow keys to navigate. Tabbing
through choices will, however, present verbose repetitions.


HTH.

Pratik

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