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screen readers and labels

From: RUST Randal <RRust@COVANSYS.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:43:55 -0500
Message-ID: <37925254B67DD311876C009027B0FF9201D3ABC3@cbscolex01.cbsinc.com>
To: "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>

Does a screen reader actually read the "for" attribute of a label, and the
"id" attribute of the control?  It appears that in SimplyWeb 2000 it
associates the two attributes and reads the value of the label to the user.

Randal Rust
Covansys, Inc.
Columbus, OH

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