- From: Yvette Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:39:49 +0200
- To: "'WCAG WG mailing list'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
David MacDonald recommended to accept HTML test 187: INPUT element must have only one associated LABEL. [1] Are there any accessibility problems with having two labels associated with the same input element? To me it would that problems only occur if the wrong label is associated, but that's true if only 1 label is associated as well. Multiple labels are permitted by the HTML spec and used wisely it can actually benefit accessibility. Based on this, I would like to reject this test. A real-world example: a content management system we built allowed the user to choose between two images. We used radiobuttons placed below the images to make the selection. One radiobutton had a text to it that read something like 'use old photograph', the other 'use new photograph'. We chose to use both the image (where the alt text described the image) and the text as labels. This way, the user could either click the image or the text below it to make a selection, providing a larger click target for people with limited motor functions. Also, it made sure that both the alt-text of the image and the meaning of the radio button (to use that image) were associated with the radio button. Yvette Hoitink Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl WWW: http://www.heritas.nl [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/test187.html
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