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Re: Forms: Explicit associations and Empty controls?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 23, 2005 2:10PM

Thomas Jedenfelt wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Today's Web browsers, do they have support for:
> 1) Explicit associations between labels and form controls?
> 2) Handle empty controls correctly?
>
> If so, I would no longer have to use the interim techniques [1] described in the checkpoints 10.2 and 10.4 of the WCAG 1.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, 05-May-1999).

Yes on both accounts, but I can't think of a situation where
(particularly nowadays, using CSS) you'd need to circumvent 10.2...

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Patrick H. Lauke
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