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Use of label without input

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 15, 2019 11:19AM

Is there any reason not to use a label as a simple container for text,
without any related input? The best reason I can come up with is "pride in
your work", but that's likely not enough. Minus being associated with an
input via the for attribute, a label element seems to be a non-semantic
container like a div, span, or <p>.

It bugs me that people do this, but I can't find any citable reason to tell
them to stop.

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*Brian Lovely*
Capital One Digital Accessibility
804.389.1064




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