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RE: Long form legends

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From: Joelle Tegwen
Date: Jun 10, 2005 3:22PM

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