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Re: Implicit labeling dropped from WCAG?

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From: _mallory
Date: May 6, 2016 10:10AM

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:32:49AM +0100, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> 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

There are two ages-old valid ways, it's just that one has consistently
messed someone up and the other hasn't. Since the other is also
equally valid, I stick to the one that has worked more consistently.
It's a personal thing but it's also got reasons.
Yes, Dragon's issue is a *bug*, my only point is that there always
seems to be someone's bug, somewhere, making things a pain in the
butt. So I just drive around that one and I don't poke it with a
stick.

_mallory