- From: Graham Oliver <graham_oliver@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 02:37:31 +0100 (BST)
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
If a user is using a keyboard only or voice software only, such as Dragon I think that the inconsistent behaviour of the label tag is a big usability issue. From *this* perspective I believe it is better to not use the label tag on input boxes and check boxes. As an experiment try setting up a check box with the label tag, with more than one option and see if you can select and deselect the boxes using the keboard only. Its very hard and unintuitive. I don't know what impact it would have on a screen reader user to have say a form with all of the standard input boxes marked up with the label tag and the check boxes and radio buttons marked up without the label tag. That may be very confusing. I will get some of our user testers to do some usability testing on it. Cheers Graham Oliver ===== 'Making on-line information accessible' Phone: 025-919-724 ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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