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RE: Adding a label to search box

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Apr 12, 2006 3:00AM

> Christian Heilmann

> What is so wrong about writing next to a form
> element what you are supposed to enter in it?

I think it's a case for certain common patterns, such as simple
search forms displayed in the top-right of a page, where it's
assumed that (sighted) users know already (from past experience,
and because the actual submit button next to the text input already
says "search") what the input is for, and adding a further explicit
label adds more information clutter to the page than necessary.

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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
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