Re: CfC: Issue 122

+1

If I had been around at the time, I would have certainly voted for
requiring WCAG 2.0 to require that check boxes and radio buttons have
clickable labels. It is a pity that it doesn't. Revisiting this in an
extension spec and WCAG.next is a good idea.

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On 12/11/15, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:
> CALL FOR CONSENSUS – ends Tuesday December 15 at 11:30am Boston time.
>
> Related to Issue 122 in GitHub[1] we believe that the discussion has
> wide-ranging and productive, but at this point think that we have heard all
> of the arguments [2][3] and that a consensus opinion has emerged.
>
> The specific question in the GitHub issue is "Please clarify that WCAG's
> Info & Relationships SC requires that checkboxes and radio buttons have
> clickable labels, i.e. programmatic "relationship" associations and a title
> alone will not suffice”
>
> The proposed consensus view is that WCAG 2.0 does not require that
> checkboxes and radio buttons have clickable labels.  The Working Group
> agrees that there is utility for end users when the labels for these (and
> other) controls are clickable, but there are no success criteria that make
> this specific requirement.
>
> Related to this question is whether the page content used as the visible
> label for the control (in order to meet SC 3.3.2) must be explicitly
> associated with the control that is being labeled. The proposed consensus
> view is that the relationship between a control and the content used to
> label that control may be made implicitly as well as explicitly, and what
> will really dictate whether SC 1.3.1 (as well as SC 4.1.2) is met is whether
> the assistive technologies used in the site’s conformance claim are able to
> provide support for the implicit or explicit relationships provided in the
> markup. An explicit markup relationship (e.g. Using the HTML for and id
> attributes to make the association or by enclosing the input within the
> label element) is preferred as it will increase the likelihood that user
> agents will support the design pattern and will simplify testing, but
> implicit relationships may also be supported and as a result may satisfy
> WCAG 2.0 success criteria.
>
> The working group agrees that there is benefit to many users when they can
> click on a larger area for a checkbox or radio button and on some user
> agents using the label element in conjunction with an input can make this
> happen without any work by the page author.  Despite the benefit, this was
> not part of the original intent of WCAG 2.0, so the working group will
> forward this issue to the task forces that are currently working on
> extensions for WCAG 2.0 for review as a topic for consideration within an
> extension. In addition, this issue will be added to the “Post WCAG 2.0” wiki
> page[4] for issues that the group wants to keep a record of for
> consideration in future versions of WCAG.
>
> If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not
> been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not being
> able to live with” this position, please let the group know before the CfC
> deadline.
>
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/122
> [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2015OctDec/0193.html
> [3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2015OctDec/0225.html
> [4] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Post_WCAG_2_Issues_Sorted
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe
>
> akirkpat@adobe.com
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
>


-- 
Laura L. Carlson

Received on Friday, 11 December 2015 17:00:27 UTC