- From: Derek Featherstone <feather@wats.ca>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:45:32 -0500
- To: "'David Poehlman'" <poehlman1@comcast.net>, "'WAI Interest Group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
David Poehlman wrote: > I would be cautious about this since with forms mode turned > on, if tabbing through the fields, the legend might not make it into > the spoken message. Actually I should have clarified. From what I can tell JAWS exhibits this behaviour when forms mode *is* on, and not otherwise, so it does actually read the text found in the <legend>...</legend>, but only when the user has activated forms mode explicitly. Apologies in advance, but let me assure you that this isn't a tactic to get more people to sign up for our newsletter... If you want to test it, our newsletter sign up form at http://www.wats.ca/mailinglist/subscribe.php?s=1 uses the strategy I described with appropriate fieldsets and legends. Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone feather@wats.ca Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca Web Accessibility Testing and Services http://www.wats.ca 1.866.932.4878 (North America)
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