- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:08:20 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
At 2000-08-22 14:11-0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: >Hello, > >The ER group is working on Techniques for Accessibility Evaluation and >Repair Tools (AERT) document. What do you think of the following >suggestions for where to place labels in relationship to form controls to >satisfy Checkpoint 10.2 (Until user agents support explicit associations >between labels and form controls, for all form controls with implicitly >associated labels, ensure that the label is properly positioned.) > >1. Labels for radio buttons and checkboxes should appear after the radio >button or checkbox. For example: [checkbox] oranges, [checkbox] apples. Another case: Alternatives if more than one may be selected: [select] oranges [select] apples. >2. Labels for text fields appear before the text field. For example: last >name [text area]. >3. Labels for groups of any form control should appear before the group. >For example: choose a city [radio button] Boston [radio button] Madison. > >If this is agreeable then I will add this to the section on Forms in the >HTML Techniques for WCAG document. > >Thanks >--wendy Regards/Harvey
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