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RE: label without form-element

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Aug 9, 2005 11:09AM

> Jan Eric Hellbusch

> 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.

Jan, don't have a screen reader handy at the moment to check, but: would
the label be read out when the screen reader is not in forms mode, just
treating it as any other text?

Patrick
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