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Re: Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms

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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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Philip Kiff
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:58 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >; Dona Patrick
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms
>
> It's not a common practice that I know about. I have also always included
> it.
>
> Artifacting the labels would be mean that users attempting to understand
> the
> form structure without entering Forms mode would be unable to access the
> visible field label, which seems like a tagging failure to me.
>
> Phil.
>
> Philip Kiff
> D4K Communications
>
> On 2019-03-12 10:46 AM, Dona Patrick wrote:
> > I am checking some PDF forms created in LiveCycle and noticed that the
> > author has chosen to artifact the visual labels before the form
> > fields. The form fields are correctly marked up with the same tooltip as
> the label.
> >
> > Is this common practice? I have always included the visual label in
> > the tag structure and have never heard that it should be artifacted.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dona
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > at
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