- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:17:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Old?ich Vete?n?k wrote: > Dne Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:31:07 +0100 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> napsal/-a: > > > > Well, in the snippet above, the following seems adequate: > > <label> Instructions <input name=idfield> > > Type in dd-mm-yyy format</label> > > ...and the custom error message should be set from script, using > > addCustomValidity(). How is that not accessible? It seems fine to me. The > > AT can read the whole label when entering the field, and the error message > > handling is done by the UA. > > Alright, I agree, I don't have a problem with it. But is it possible to create > a detailed documentation for this, including "How do I code it right?," with > wrong good and examples? In my opinion, if there was a good, clear and > understandable (for human regular beings that is) documentantion which > developers could refer to, and if it succeeded in getting known widely, it > could improve the overall knowledge and accessibility. It reminds of the > longdesc attribute - it's useful but nobody really knows how to make it right. I think it would be reasonable to have examples, yes. I've added one for <label> similar to the above. Do you have any other areas where you would like particular examples? Note that Lachy is working on a whole authoring guide for HTML5 which will probably cover things like this in more detail also. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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