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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 24, 2003 6:51AM

Lisa,
In that case, you might want to consider using the title attribute on the
<input> tags to provide clear labels for the fields.

Some fields (name, email address, organization, please type your message
here) can easily use the text available in a <label> tag.

Other fields, such as "relationship" need more information and this could be
provided in the title -- <input title="relationship to organization">.
Similarly, "purpose for message", "topic of message", "message subject"
could be used for other fields. (why not use the topic and purpose as the
message subject?)

The field that I have the most difficulty with is "capacity". I can't
figure out how it is different from relationship. In any case, the label
"capacity" seems insufficient. Maybe the label should be "In what capacity
are you writing?" or "Who I am".

AWK

On 2/24/03 8:16 AM, "Miller, Lisa F. (LMS)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> The link you included is very similar to the page we are building:
> http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy/web.html. We are reproducing an official
> government form on the web, and must retain all the information available on
> the original form, so we do not have the option to condense any of the text
> - it is required to look as much like the paper form as possible. The site
> is required to be 508 compliant, which has been defined by the client as
> being JAWS complient.
>
> We would like to make the site as 'usable' as possible, but finding 508
> compliant examples which do more than a 'Contact Me' page has been
> difficult. If anyone could point me to any good sites, especially in
> regards to complex forms, it would be most appreciated. I have passed the
> suggestions from this forum on to the programmer, and hope to get some
> feedback from him today or tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Lisa
>
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