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Re: Labelling multi-answer questions

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From: glen walker
Date: May 16, 2018 10:19AM

Nice timing. We discussed this issue a few weeks ago. You can see the
entire thread on https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread†93

Also keep in mind that you have an "authoring tool" so ATAG will also
apply, https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/atag/

ATAG has two parts
1. making your tool, itself, accessible
2. allowing the user to create accessible content with your tool

Glen



On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 4:41 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi guys, I'm auditing an HTML authoring tool that enables authors
> unfamiliar
> with HTML to create exam questions. The UI is really flexible in that it's
> possible to create all manner of question types including a "fill in the
> blanks" type scenario.
>
>
>
> The sort of question I'm talking about might look something like:
>
>
>
> How far away is the Sun from the Earth, and how many planets are closer?
>
>
>
> The Sun is __ million miles away from Earth, and there are _ planets
> closer.
>
>
>
> Where the underlines are replaced by small textboxes.
>
>
>
> If we were marking up the question by hand, I'm sure we could come up with
> some sort of fudge. But the solution needs to be flexible enough to build
> into the authoring tool.
>
>
>
> The best I can come up with is to use the immediately preceding text node
> as
> the label for each textbox. But in this question neither label would
> provide
> enough information.
>
>
>
> I'd really appreciate any help I can get with this one. Aria labels are
> currently being used, both of which say "Numeric answer text", which is
> likely to be very confusing indeed.
>
>
>
> Thanks as always
>
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