Re: CfC: Checkbox and Radio button labels and 1.3.1 from Paul Adam on 2015-12-07 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from October to December 2015)

From: Paul Adam <paul.adam@deque.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:25:22 -0600
To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>, "josh@interaccess.ie" <josh@interaccess.ie>, Detlev Fischer <detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, Makoto UEKI <ueki@infoaxia.com>, WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-Id: <B687EC51-5211-48D6-B213-4FBC2C613238@deque.com>

I did not know that you could group form controls with labels and instructions via paragraph elements. I always expected WCAG required these be programmatically associated. Something more like ARIA or explicit/implicit labels. 

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist 
www.deque.com

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7 December 2015 at 16:49, Paul Adam <paul.adam@deque.com <mailto:paul.adam@deque.com>> wrote:
> <p><input type=“checkbox”> Please send me a ton of email</p> 
> 
> Apologies, but I am getting confused here.
> 
> The code example passes 1.3.1 Info and Relationships because the content is grouped by the <p> element

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