safari/voiceover does not support HTML label element accessibility

Dear Apple,
the support for associating label text with an HTML input type=text using
conforming methods [1] is somewhat flaky.
I have provided test cases and results [2] for OS X 10.6.7 using Safari 5.05
and VoiceOver 3.4.0


[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/forms.html#the-label-element
[2] http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-labels.html
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with regards

Steve Faulkner
Technical Director - TPG

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HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives -
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Received on Tuesday, 5 July 2011 15:10:28 UTC