RE: label tag question

Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>It does use the title as it should be used, but it is invisible to many  
>people. I don't think it is a good pure substitute for a proper label -

The title attribute should be used when the page designer uses visual
placement of elements that give the sighted user a clear idea of what the
input element is to be used for and that is not immediately available to a
screen reader user. I agree that a proper label is better but there are lots
of times when the deisgn doesn't provide such nice text.

Jim
 
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Subject: Re: label tag question


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:10:03 +1000, Jim Thatcher <jim@jimthatcher.com>  
wrote:

> The best alternative hasn't yet been mentioned; the title attribute.
>
> <input name="filterId" value="" id="filterId" type="text" title="search
> text" />
>
> It doesn't depend on whether or not the text is visible. It uses the  
> title as it should be used.

It does use the title as it should be used, but it is invisible to many  
people. I don't think it is a good pure substitute for a proper label -  
more a good parallel resource to cope with the fact that people need to  
use different and generally incomplete tools to get the best possible  
access for themselves.

cheers

Chaals

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