Re: use cases for <label>

forgot to mention I have opened a bug so you can comment there:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22586 if you like.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 6 July 2013 09:04, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> are there any uses cases for the <label> element[1] that does not label a
> control?
>
> example:
>
> <label>name</label> <input type="text">
>
> in the case above the label element is not associated with the input using
> for/id or via wrapping.
>
> It does not appear to do anything, so why should it be conforming?  would
> it be helpful to authors/users if this was flagged as an error
>
> I have a use case for use of an additional secondary label associated
> using aria-describedby:
>
>  primary label = accessible name, auxiliary label = accessible description
>
> <p><label>name <input type"text" aria-describedby="instructions"></label></p>
>
> <p><label id="instructions">last name only please</label></p>
>
>
> https://gist.github.com/stevefaulkner/5935190
>
> is the above a reasonable use case?
>
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-label-element
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> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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