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From: Lori K. Brown
Date: Wed, Feb 12 2003 11:37AM
Subject: Re: Explicit Link Between Radio Buttons and "Question" Label?
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I use fieldsets to group form elements, but not typically at that
level of granularity. I tend to use them to group sections of form
elements ('contact information', 'credit card
information', 'shipping address', for example) rather than to
bracket a single question and its answers.

Don't you think that if one designs forms w/ a different fieldset
around each 'question', the form would look very busy and cluttered
w/ fieldset boxes? I know you can adjust their appearance w/ styles,
but if you get rid of the border, fieldsets don't do any useful
grouping for sighted users.

Lori Kay Brown
User Interface Engineer
SiteScape, Inc.
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wed, Feb 12 2003 1:07PM
Subject: Re: Explicit Link Between Radio Buttons and "Question" Label?
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You can use CSS to remove the borders from fieldset elements.

fieldset {
border: none;
}

Here is an example form that uses the fieldset technique for radio buttons:
http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/servlets/survey.survey8

Feel free to fill out the survey if you want to.

Jon


At 02:22 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:


>I use fieldsets to group form elements, but not typically at that
>level of granularity. I tend to use them to group sections of form
>elements ('contact information', 'credit card
>information', 'shipping address', for example) rather than to
>bracket a single question and its answers.
>
>Don't you think that if one designs forms w/ a different fieldset
>around each 'question', the form would look very busy and cluttered
>w/ fieldset boxes? I know you can adjust their appearance w/ styles,
>but if you get rid of the border, fieldsets don't do any useful
>grouping for sighted users.
>
>Lori Kay Brown
>User Interface Engineer
>SiteScape, Inc.
>E-mail: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>
>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248

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