Fwd: [webwatch] Leaving Out a Name

I am sending this to AU as I understand AU is now the principal point of
responsibility for evaulation and repair techniques.

Here is an example of some checks that will make a big difference in
compliance
with "make sure your page works with scripts turned off.  It has to do with
static checking the integrity of FORMs.

Here is an example of some very bad code that passes the W3C validator because
the relevant rules are not in the DTD.  Have we formalized any checks that go
beyond the DTD in the area of statically executable checks on FORM integrity? 
Is this a topic for the current work on techniques?

In this example there is no FORM and hence no ACTION and this is not the
intent.  It should be suspicious from the presence of form controls that there
is no form defined.

Further there is no NAME on some of the checkbox INPUT elements, which
leads to
shortfalls in contol documentation for the non-visual user.  This is a
violation of the specification but not formally in conflict with the DTD.  The
NAME attribute is #REQUIRED on INPUTs of TYPE other than SUBMIT and RESET, but
that is not documented in the formal DTD language but in a comment.

Al

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> Subject: [webwatch] Leaving Out a Name 
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> Hi All, 
>
> Earlier this week I used several examples of the tag 
> in illustrations I shared here. I left out the attribute name= as part of 
> those examples and would like to share some additional information as a 
> result of that omission. 
>
> According to my reading of 
> , 
> the name= attribute is mandatory for the tag I was using. Leaving it off 
> alters the way JAWS reads information. Exploring this issue has also shown 
> me why a problem I mentioned in passing, namely JAWS sometimes reading the 
> first item in a table for all check boxes, can happen. 
>
> In the below example, JAWS reads "test 1 link" for the first two check 
> boxes. It reads "test 3 link" and "test 4 link" for the final two check 
> boxes. In the case of check boxes, when I say a screen reader reads 
> something I mean when keyboard focus is moved to the item, not when the box 
> is merely passed over in a mode like the JAWS Virtual PC or Window-Eyes 
> MSAA mode. I'll likely post more on this specific point in the next couple 
> days. 
>
> Here's where my knowledge is a bit sparse. I believe that if you were 
> using the tag for the traditional form, you'd most 
> definitely need the name attribute to get the results submitted as part of 
> a form. But I've seen examples where the tag is used in conjunction with 
> scripting where leaving name= out does not cause the page to break. 
>
> What's interesting to me is that the documents say name= is mandatory for 
> everything but input types of submit and reset yet the example below 
> validated as a correct document at . 
>
> Kelly 
>
>
>
"<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
> <test1.htm>Test 1 link> 
> <test2.htm>Test 2 link> 
> <test3.htm>Test 3 link> 
> <test4.htm>Test 4 link> 
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