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Re: Implicit labeling dropped from WCAG?

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: May 6, 2016 7:18AM

Implicit labelling has been acceptable but UA support has been flaky.
But on Windows for past few years with screen readers it works just
fine. One can also click the label to have the control focused.
In WCAG1, there is a checkpoint 10.2
 Until user agents support explicit associations between labels and
form controls, for all form controls with implicitly associated
labels, ensure that the label is properly positioned.
So it has always been valid. In HTML5 specs, all form related examples
use this method.
Sailesh

On 5/6/16, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> A general comment, referring to this method as 'implicit' may infer
> something that is untrue. In terms of exposing the accessible name to
> accessibility APIs either method works. i.e. an input's accessible name is
> provided and exposed by the browser. The IE issue was a bug and got fixed,
> the dragon issue is an ongoing major bug in dragon not using the
> standardised accessibility APIs
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> Current Standards Work @W3C
> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/03/current-standards-work-at-w3c/>;
>
> On 5 May 2016 at 23:55, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Me and a few colleagues ran into an issue with Voiceover on iOS 9 and
>> implicitly labeled radiobuttons.
>> For those who do not know, implicit labeling is when you wrap the form
>> field to be labeled along with the label text in a label tag, like so:
>> <label><input type="text" size="30">Please enter your name.</label>
>>
>> This is valid use of the label tag per HTML5 specification.
>> But there used to be a WCAG technique that recommended implicit labeling.
>> That technique is apparently deprecated.
>> Does this mean that WCAG no longer recommends implicit labeling of form
>> fields?
>> If so, why?
>> If anybody knows the background on this, I'd be curious.
>> -B
>>
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>> Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
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