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Re: Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mar 18, 2019 2:34PM

> 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.

In my experience the tooltips and form fields are placed in the virtual cursor/browse mode even if the label text is made an artifact -- so users are still able to arrow to the form fields and don't hear duplicate labels.

Jonathan


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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
>