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RE: RE: Long form legends

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From: Thomas Jedenfelt
Date: Jun 6, 2005 10:51AM

Joelle,

You wrote:
'But we have over 70 activities and they all have fieldsets.'

As I wrote in my first message in this thread, FIELDSET / LEGEND is not consistently supported by user agents, according to AFB (American Foundation for the Blind).

(http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=57&;TopicID=167&DocumentID=2375&Mod&Mode=Print&Mode=Print)

If AFB's recommendation is still valid as of today (and affects your users), I would say that you are in serious trouble.

Maybe you ought to find out if the user agents - that the students are using - supports these elements, before you continue to work on these forms.

If they don't supports these elements, you might want to take a vacation.

Regards,
Thomas Jedenfelt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joelle Tegwen"
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:52:31 -0500

>
> I'm going to talk to our designers about moving from two radios to one
> checkbox, thus eliminating a lot of our needed fieldsets. But we have over
> 70 activities and they all have fieldsets. I just gave 1 example.
>
> But I do have many cases where I have things like:
> List 5 people that can help you with this:
> 1. <input type="text">
> 2. <input type="text">
> 3. <input type="text">
> 4. <input type="text">
> 5. <input type="text">
>
> And these clearly qualify for a fieldset/legend.
>
> We *must* be accessible to screen readers (our mission is to support people
> with disabilities) so the "List 5 people.." needs to be associated with the
> 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. His example only associates the "List 5 people..." with the
> 1st control.
>
> Could we use a <dl>? Can form controls go inside a dl?
>
> Thanks
> Joelle
>
>
>