Re: FIELDSET and LEGEND - WCAG2 Conformance Example Files

Thanks John.

If fieldset and legend is the only way to create labels that can be 
"programmatically determined" to be associated with a group of checkboxes 
then should it be a failure if you don't do it?

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>; "Gregg Vanderheiden" 
<gv@trace.wisc.edu>; "WAI WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: FIELDSET and LEGEND - WCAG2 Conformance Example Files


> Chris asked:
>
> <blockquote>
> Other than using fieldset and legend, is there any way to create labels
> that can be "programmatically determined" to be associated with a group
> of
> checkboxes?
> </blockquuote>
>
> Not in HTML, but take a look at the <select> element in XFORMS.
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice8.html#ui-selectMany)
> John
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