Re: required radio buttons and checkboxes

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Philip Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > When a radio group has no checked radio button and more than one of 
> > the radio buttons is marked as required, the UA, when alerting the 
> > user, should only tell the user that the radio group as a whole is 
> > missing a value, not complain about each radio button in turn, even 
> > though all of the radio buttons marked with the required attribute 
> > would have the valueMissing flag set.
> 
> (Suggested spec change: Say "When a radio group does not have exactly 
> one checked radio button and more than ...", to be consistent with the 
> definition of "required" in the (maybe impossible?) case where more than 
> one is checked.)
> 
> (Suggested spec change: Say "When a radio group does not have exactly 
> one checked radio button, or a group of checkboxes with the same name 
> does not have one or more checked checkboxes, and more than one of the 
> group's form controls is marked as required, ...", because this should 
> apply to checkboxes and not just radio buttons.)

The wording changed quite a bit; is the new wording ok?

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