WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms

for

From: Dona Patrick
Date: Mar 12, 2019 2:20PM

Thanks everyone. I was worried I'd been doing it wrong for all these years.

Dona

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:39 AM Karlen Communications <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I agree. We have to be able to read the text of a form, not just have
> access
> to the form controls. Failing to tag the text/labels or any other text on
> a
> form would fail the form for accessibility.
>
> I've also seen instances where the text of a form including headings and
> informative/instructional text has been "tagged" as a read only form
> control
> thus forcing us to read everything on a form and preventing us from really
> distinguishing the text/instructions from the form fields we need to fill
> out. Also a failure in terms of accessibility.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
>