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Re: Implicit labeling dropped from WCAG?

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: May 6, 2016 3:32AM

On 5 May 2016 at 23:55, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> This is valid use of the label tag per HTML5 specification.


Note: it has been a valid use of label since 1999 / HTML4 [1], nothing
changed in this respect in HTML5

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1

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