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Re: Help Database Integration

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From: Mallory
Date: May 17, 2017 1:56AM

The alt on the anchor makes little sense, is that even read out?

But what you've got is similar to a solution my old insurance forms
used. There was a span inside the label which, when the input got focus,
the span was positioned and styled nicely like a tooltip and became
visible.

The con of this approach does mean long, long labels for each input, so
it might make sense to have the main label name come first so skipping
from field to field can be skimmed.

I'm also curious about the tabindex. These things aren't just normally,
natively focusable? Is this not a web page?

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, May 17, 2017, at 03:19 AM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> > We can do the standard accessibility fix using a label tag with for and id attributes to connect an input to its field label, and onfocus with the onmouseover, but we still have the field's help separate from the input, for example:
>
> Perhaps aria-describedby can be used to associate the field with the
> abbreviated tooltip.
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