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RE: Long form legends

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From: Jim Allan
Date: May 31, 2005 9:50AM

As you tab through a form you only hear type of form control, it's state (if
it has one), associated label or title, associated field set (if it has
one).
a heading would not be read in forms mode, unless it were also marked as a
label for the form control. LABEL can be contained within a block level
element, so a heading can be a label.
Screen readers can only be in one "mode" at a time - reading, forms, table,
etc. it varies between screen reader as to how many modes. This is also true
for HomePage Reader.

Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
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