RE: Form and label element association

I heard somewhere (perhaps from someone at Freedom Scientific?) that the
company plans to propose the context-help attribute as an addition to
XHTML sometime in the future. If that happens, then we can recommend
that developers use it.  But in the meantime-- proprietary attributes
line the road to madness for end-users and developers alike.
 
My two cents' worth.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Sailesh Panchang
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:02 pm
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Cc: Chris Hofstader
Subject: Re: Form and label element association


While on this subject:
For making a form accessible to JAWS 5.0 users, an HTML tag that Freedom
Scientific supports is  ContextHelp. Here is an example... it is not  a
standard though.
<label for="pcp" >Name of PCP:</label>
<input type="text" id="pcp" tabindex="10" ContextHelp="Enter name of
primary care physician" />
When JAWS encounters this it says "Press Insert+F1 for help" and one can
hear the help text and then press Exc to excape... all this in forms
data entry mode. Must say it works well for me.
Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer 
Deque Systems,11180  Sunrise Valley Drive, 
4th Floor, Reston VA 20191
Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 
E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com
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