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From: Corbett, James
Date: Wed, Dec 19 2012 7:10AM
Subject: Disclaimers
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Folks:

How do you handle situations where there is a multi-line disclaimer on a web page that is relative to two radio buttons e.g. Yes I Agree and No I don't Agree.

The disclaimer I'm dealing with is rather lengthy about 10 lines of verbiage that almost constitutes a legal disclaimer. In other words the message really can't be shortened.

Obviously if the message was indeed shorter the legend of a fieldset would suffice.

Any thoughts?

Jim


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From: David Farough
Date: Wed, Dec 19 2012 8:28AM
Subject: Re: Disclaimers
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I think you could give the paragraph a tabindex of 0. It would be best
if the disclaimer appeared before the radio buttons.

David Farough
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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Wed, Dec 19 2012 8:43AM
Subject: Re: Disclaimers
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2012-12-19 16:10, Corbett, James wrote:

> How do you handle situations where there is a multi-line disclaimer on a web page that is relative to two radio buttons e.g. Yes I Agree and No I don't Agree.

What is the exact setup? In which way is the disclaimer "relative to"
radio buttons?

Is there some fixed HTML markup that you need to work with, or are you
asking which markup should be used?

Yucca

From: Corbett, James
Date: Wed, Dec 19 2012 8:50AM
Subject: Re: Disclaimers
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Hi:

So would that imply having the text of the disclaimer with in some sort of control?

Jim

From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Wed, Dec 26 2012 10:57AM
Subject: Re: Disclaimers
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I'll say in this case, usability trumps accessibility:
Suffix off-screen text to the labels 'with the above'.
Assuming label text reads 'I agree' / 'I disagree'.
This will convey to the user there is some associated text one might
wish to read.
So fieldset/legend may be dispensed in this case.

If the text were marked as a legend, it would be read by AT-user
agents (that support fieldset/legend). The legend does not need
tabindex=0.
And if it were not legend text, using tabindex=0 is a problem ...
A tabindex=0 will make the text tab-navigable. A user will be forced
to listen to all of it in the belief it is a label and the form
control's state will be announced.

Sailesh Panchang


On 12/19/12, Corbett, James < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi:
>
> So would that imply having the text of the disclaimer with in some sort of
> control?
>
> Jim
>
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> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of David Farough
> Sent: December 19, 2012 10:28 AM
> To: W-Aim ( = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = )
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Disclaimers
>
> I think you could give the paragraph a tabindex of 0. It would be best
> if the disclaimer appeared before the radio buttons.
>
> David Farough
> Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
> Information Technology Services Directorate /
> Direction des services d'information technologiques
> Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
> Email / Courriel: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779
>
>>>> "Corbett, James" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > 09:10 AM Wednesday,
> December 19, 2012 >>>
> Folks:
>
> How do you handle situations where there is a multi-line disclaimer on
> a web page that is relative to two radio buttons e.g. Yes I Agree and
> No I don't Agree.
>
> The disclaimer I'm dealing with is rather lengthy about 10 lines of
> verbiage that almost constitutes a legal disclaimer. In other words the
> message really can't be shortened.
>
> Obviously if the message was indeed shorter the legend of a fieldset
> would suffice.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jim
>
>
> James M. Corbett
>
> Programmer / Analyst |
> Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenue du Canada
> 875 Heron Rd.
> Ottawa, On.
> K1A0L5
>
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Telephone | Téléphone: (613) 941-9355
> Facsimile | Télécopieur: (613) 941-2261
>
> Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
>
> 6EQUJ5
>
> "On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am
> not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could
> provoke such a question."
> Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer scientist (1791-1871)
>
>
>
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