Completed Action Item: User Agent and Assistive Technology Support Notes for H44

I tested explicit and implicit labels in Window-Eyes,  JAWS, and HPR. Here 
are the results.  The proposal is to add this to H44: Using label elements 
to associate text labels with form controls

@@add to H44  User Agent  and Assistive Technology Support Notes
JAWS 7.10 was tested on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Firefox 
1.5. It reads the label for explicit and implicit labels for text fields 
in both virtual PC cursor and forms reading mode. In forms mode it does 
not read the label for implicit labels on checkboxes and radio fields. 

Home Page Reader 3.04
Reads the label for explicit and implicit labels the same when in control 
reading modes.  In item reading mode explicitly and implicitly labelled 
text fields behave the same. When stepping from item to item in item 
reading or Windows cursor reading mode , Home Page Reader reads the label 
and control name together for implicitly labelled radio buttons and 
checkboxes but not for explicitly labelled ones.

Window-Eyes 5.5 was tested on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6.0 and 
Firefox 1.5.  It will always speak the label for an explicitly labelled 
form field.  It does not speak the label for the implicitly labelled form 
control in browse on mode but will speak the implicit label when 
navigating from control to control in browse off mode.


Becky Gibson
Web Accessibility Architect
                                                       
IBM Emerging Internet Technologies
5 Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA 01886
Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101
Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com

Received on Monday, 21 August 2006 20:41:04 UTC