- From: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:18:43 -0500
- To: "WAI GL \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
In the 02 February 2005 teleconference [1] we made some decisions about form labels. These relate to issue 243, 273, 1311, and 1248 [2]. I propose the following changes to HTML techniques: * Add a note to "Explicit Form Labels" [3] that this is the preferred mechanism to label form controls. * Add a note to "Explicit Form Labels" [3] that multiple controls labelled in this way are permitted. * Add a description of implict form labels to "Explicit Form Labels" [3], essentially permitting either explicit" (<label for="id">) and "implict" (<label>text + control</label>) labels. * Move "Implicit labels for form controls (deprecated)" [4] to the Fallback Techniques section [5]. This technique says not to use the "implicit label syntax" because some user agents don't support it, but the anticipation is in the future they will. * Add a note to "Label form controls with the title attribute" [6] that this is permitted but should be used only when it is not possible to provide an explicit label. I will make these changes unless somebody screams. Michael [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/02/02-wai-wcag-minutes.html [2] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/buglist.cgi?bug_id=243%2C273%2C1311%2C1248&bugidtype=include&order=bugs.bug_id [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#label [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#label-implicit [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#fallback-techniques [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#label-title --- Signature --- Michael Cooper Accessibility Product Manager, Watchfire 1 Hines Rd Suite 200, Kanata, ON K2K 3C7 Canada Tel: +1 (613) 599-3888 x4019 Fax: +1 (613) 599-4661 Email: michaelc@watchfire.com Web: http://www.watchfire.com/
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