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From: Luke Jenner
Date: May 11, 2006 7:40PM

Hi there,



I was wondering what people's thoughts are on making a 'matrix style'
form accessible. Of particular interest, is how to create explicit
labels for the controls on the form.



An example of such a form (that I just made up in Paint) is as follows:





Due to screen estate and the client's needs, it is not possible to break
up the matrix into its constituents. The form is dynamically generated
and depending on the users actions, could have a lot more rows (and
possibly two more columns) than those listed above.



I would really appreciate any feedback you may have.



Thanks,



Luke Jenner

Graduate Technical Officer


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