RE: FIELDSET and LEGEND - WCAG2 Conformance Example Files

Chris asked:

<blockquote>
Other than using fieldset and legend, is there any way to create labels
that can be "programmatically determined" to be associated with a group
of 
checkboxes?
</blockquuote>

Not in HTML, but take a look at the <select> element in XFORMS.
(http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice8.html#ui-selectMany)
John
"Good design is accessible design"
John Slatin, Director
Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin 1 University
station Stop G9600
Austin, TX 78712, USA
Phone +1.512.495.4288 Fax +1.512.495.4524 cell +1.512.784.7533
email jslatin@austin.utexas.edu
www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/

-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Ridpath
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:21 AM
To: Gregg Vanderheiden; 'WAI WCAG List'
Subject: FIELDSET and LEGEND - WCAG2 Conformance Example Files



Gregg,

> RE the second example - it does NOT necessarily fail.   You do not
have to
> use the techniques specified.  You must avoid the failures, but you 
> can use
> the techniques or any other method that meets the SC.    I didn't
check
> whether the SC was met in this case - but the fact that the author 
> didn't use a particular technique listed does not make a page fail.
>
The example file does not use any technique to associate a label with
the group of checkboxes (re SC 1.3.1). So would it fail level 1?

http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/docs/file2.html

Other than using fieldset and legend, is there any way to create labels
that can be "programmatically determined" to be associated with a group
of 
checkboxes?

Cheers,
Chris