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From: Steve Green
Date: Nov 16, 2019 2:42PM

Actually, it does cause an issue, which is caused by one of JAWS' heuristics. If a page contains a <label> element that is not programmatically associated with a labelable element, and the page also contains an unlabelled element that is labelable, JAWS uses the contents of the <label> element to label the other element.

I have seen this many times, and at first I had no idea what was going on because the two elements were hundreds of lines apart in the DOM and there was no apparent relationship between them. However, it was easy to create a minimal test page to verify the theory.

To the best of my knowledge, this issue does not occur with any other screen reader.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: 15 November 2019 21:00
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Use of label without input

Yes, agreed. Unless they have a parsing issue such as using a <label> on a <fieldset>, I just shake my head and let it go.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:41 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

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> Even if it bugs you though, is it causing any kind of issue? It's
> probably a mild case of using a slightly inappropriate element, but
> not enough to, for instance, fail under WCAG 2.1 SC 1.3.1. To my
> knowledge, it has no adverse effect per se, so beyond the "what you're
> doing here is pointless", not sure there's any major reason for letting it slide.
>
> P
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> Patrick H. Lauke
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