- From: Matthew Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:38:51 +1200
On 22 Jul, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Sander wrote: > ... > Can I assume your suggestion is solely to make labels non-clickable, > rather than to prevent automatic focus-shifting from labels to non > checkbox/radiobutton controls? The latter would break accessibility on > pretty much all CMSs I've created within the last two years. For l10n > purposes, I always bind the accesskey to the label rather than to the > associated input element itself, pretty much as is shown in this > example in the HTML specs - > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#access-keys > ... Sure, that would be a third use for <label> (after identifying controls, and allowing consistent styling of labels). That said, if you're using <accesskey> you've got bigger accessibility problems than anything to do with focus-shifting. <http://wats.ca/resources/accesskeysandkeystrokes/38> -- Matthew Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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