Good point Charles. Once we give the assistive technologies (and the users with assistive technologies) a little more time to catch up, fieldset and legend will solve many of these forms-related issues. (JAWS 4.02 and HPR 3.02 are actually doing a pretty good job with fieldset already.) I don't think even fieldset is going to help us in the "tabular form"-type examples -- but maybe it's not really an issue for HTML, but rather a matter of getting the screen readers to merge their "forms" and "tables" reading modes... Mike p.s. just wondering (no practical example in mind) -- is it valid to "nest" fieldsets? -----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:53 AM To: Mike Scott Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; 'Andy J. W. Affleck' Subject: RE: A new one: label vs. Scope On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Mike Scott wrote: It is unfortunate that HTML doesn't offer a way of assigning multiple form fields to a single label (and vice versa). It does. Fieldset/legend assign one label to multiple controls: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#edef-FIELDSET Assigning multiple labels to a single control isn't generally possible as far as I know, unless you use multiple layers of headings in tables and have a tool that lets you find out what all the headers are (tablin can do this as a proxy service, but I don't know of a stand-alone browser that manages it). You can use a label inside a fieldset, which lets you have two ways of labelling the same thing. cheers ChaalsReceived on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 14:34:56 GMT
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