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Re: Implicit labeling dropped from WCAG?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 6, 2016 7:23AM

I agree with you guys, except for the fact that it is no longer, at
least not officially, an official WCAG technique. That is the thing
that surprised me the most.
recognized
This 2005 document (as old as the hills, at least in terms of
accessibility on the web)advises against using implicit labeling?

https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050211/#label-implicit
This technique is depricated, true, but the latest version of WCAG
does not have an advisory technique for implicit labeling, which is
kind of funny.



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
>>
>> --
>> Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
>> >> >> >> >>
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