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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Tue, Aug 14 2012 4:47PM
Subject: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?
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Are orphaned form labels (labels with no form controls) a WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure? Or just sloppy coding? Which SC if so?
Thanks!
Paul J. Adam
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From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Aug 14 2012 5:18PM
Subject: Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> Are orphaned form labels (labels with no form controls) a WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure?
I don't think they would be a failure or an accessibility issue.
The WAVE tool flags them as an error (in the updated tool it's an
alert) because when you have a label without an associated form
control, there is typically a form control also that doesn't have a
label - usually because the for and/or id values have become
mismatched or removed.
Jared
From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Tue, Aug 14 2012 5:25PM
Subject: Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?
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It almost seems like it should be a failure but I guess it does not affect a screen reader since they only can pull up a list of inputs, not labels without an input.
In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!
I think I should still flag it as not following web standards coding practices at least, but I guess it's not something you could say is a specific WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure.
Paul J. Adam
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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Thu, Aug 16 2012 5:05PM
Subject: Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?
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Paul,
> In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!
Would the site happened to be written in ASP? I have seen a few blog
posts saying <asp:label> can be used push data to the page, like PHP's
echo()
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Ryan E. Benson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Paul J. Adam < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> It almost seems like it should be a failure but I guess it does not affect a screen reader since they only can pull up a list of inputs, not labels without an input.
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> In my current testing project I'm seeing <label>s wrapping everything, they're using labels like paragraph tags. It's really strange!
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> I think I should still flag it as not following web standards coding practices at least, but I guess it's not something you could say is a specific WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure.
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> Paul J. Adam
> Accessibility Evangelist
> Deque Systems
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