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RE: label without form-element

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Aug 9, 2005 11:08AM

> > > A screen reader will only "fetch" a label when its focus is in a
> > > form element. That said, only some screen readers will
> currently do that.

I think that this statement is confusing. Readers that I've tested
(JAWS 4.50-6.2, Window-Eyes 5.0, VoiceOver, HAL/SuperNova 6.0 and HPR
3.04) read the label inline as one reads the page from top to bottom,
and also when the label is correctly associated with an
input/select/textarea. In addition, when there is no label correctly
associated with a form element, the label text _may_ be read as the
reader attempts to intuit what the correct label is for the control.

AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Principal Accessibility Engineer, Macromedia
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