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Re: Expected behavior for description text of a toggle button

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From: Scott González
Date: May 20, 2015 1:40PM

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Cliff Tyllick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Alexander, if I understand your question correctly, the answer is
> "Neither."
>
> When I touch the text, I probably want to swipe up or down, or perhaps
> zoom in with a two-finger motion. I don't expect a form control to toggle,
> because that isn't what text—even when it's a form label—does.
>

That's not true. Labels for checkboxes and radios *do* activate their
associated controls. This makes forms much more usable because the
extremely small form controls receive much larger hit areas as a result.