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RE: label without form-element

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From: Jan Eric Hellbusch
Date: Aug 9, 2005 11:09AM

Hello Michael,

> what I would like to know is, how do screenreader handle this
> situation? will they ignore the label or read it? besides, the
> label-text is totally senseless at this point. e.g. "please enter
> your name" - where, if there is no input-element?

LABEL is, in fact, useless in your example,

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.

Regs
Jan

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