Re: labels missing for form fields in W3C home page

On 19 Aug 2011, at 3:39 AM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> From a quick skim, I think it would be important to add a title attribute to the following element:
> 
> <option selected="selected" value="W3C By Region">W3C By Region</option>
> 
> See WCAG 2.0 Technique H65: <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H65>.
> 
> Sidenote: I'm not sure what the use of the value attribute is here.

Ok, I've dropped value and added title. Deploying shortly!

Ian

> 
> Best,
>  Shadi
> 
> 
> On 19.8.2011 00:27, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> 
>> On 18 Aug 2011, at 3:39 AM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Shadi,
>> 
>> I'm not sure what action to take here:
>> 
>> 1) The only form controls on the page are a drop-down menu and a "Go" button
>> 2) The default text of the dropdown menu is 'W3C by region' which also serves as a label.
>> 
>> What sort of change is appropriate in this situation?
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
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>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: labels missing for form fields in W3C home page
>>> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:31:30 -0700
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>>> Please  do the needful.
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