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Re: Fieldset/legend as label for textbox or textarea?

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Apr 17, 2018 8:42AM

Much appreciated as always Steve. My justification for fixing this
needs to be WCAG-based - would you say this is a fail or rather an
edge case?

Cheers.

On 17/04/2018, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>This feels like an incorrect use of fieldset/legend to me, as it's
>>supposed to be a group label for checkboxes or radiobuttons.
>
> you are correct, use <label> for individual checkboxes and radio buttons,
> fieldset/legend for group labels.
>
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>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
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>
> On 17 April 2018 at 15:19, Isabel Holdsworth < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're currently using a fieldset/legend wrapper to label some of our
>> textboxes, but it doesn't work well with JAWS.
>>
>> This feels like an incorrect use of fieldset/legend to me, as it's
>> supposed to be a group label for checkboxes or radiobuttons.
>>
>> Would fieldset/legend in this scenario be enough to pass WCAG2, or
>> would it fail on 2.4.6 (headings and labels) and/or 4.1.2 (name, role,
>> value)?
>>
>> Thanks as always.
>> >> >> >> >>
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