- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:40:46 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi All A little problem for you; I am doing a little more work on my (intended to be) accessible RSS aggregator <http://www.websticky.net/aggiegpl>. Now that I have been using it for some time, I have found that the operation that I perform most is to send items that are not of interest to 'trash'. This operation involves following a 'trash' link for the relevant item, which sends a request to the server to set the trash flag for the item in the database, then send the page back, minus the item trashed. This can become somewhat tedious, especially when a feed might return 50 items, only two being of interest. To remedy this, I am providing an alternative way to perform bulk operations, by means of selecting items by form checkboxes. Here is my problem: I want to put the checkbox before the item title. Whilst the title might make acceptable contents for a <label></label> for the checkbox, the item title is already an external link to the page described by the title. I assume that using a link (which is an action) as a label for another, different action is a bad idea. I do not want to have to add further text, just to label the checkbox. I seem to recall that putting the relevant description in as a title attribute for the checkbox would not work with all user agents. Any ideas as to how best to label my checkboxes? (Sample of a current item, sans checkbox, below; checkbox would go immediately after the opening of the <li>) Cheers Matthew Smith HTML example: <li class="linklist"> <a class="headline" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4696173.stm" title="view full article Engineers still chase shuttle fix" >Engineers still chase shuttle fix</a> [ <a href="/aggie.pl?a=archv;itemid=2139" title="Archive Engineers still chase shuttle fix" >Archive</a> | <a href="/aggie.pl?a=trash;itemid=2139" title="Trash Engineers still chase shuttle fix" >Trash</a> ] <br />Continued work on a troublesome fuel sensor means the space shuttle Discovery will now fly no earlier than 26 July, Nasa says. <br />(2005-07-20 13:12) </li>
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