- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:00:37 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> For a credit card entry that is split across 4 fields, what would be * placed in the following titles where below there is "????" Credit card numbers don't really have four parts. That's done purely to break them up for human consumption. Whilst I get irritated by sites that insist the numbers be entered without any spaces, I don't think it is right to forcibly split the number thus requiring tabbing rather than spaces. > For a telephone number, would this be acceptable ie the label to the * first field that has a title and the sceond field with a title. > <label for"telephone">telephone number</label><input type="text" id * ="telephone" title="area code"> <input type="text" title="local * number"> This seems to be making the mistake of assuming that only people in the USA will communicate with you, both in the sense that you haven't allowed for an international code and that other countries may not have the same area code concept or may have different lengths for area codes and local parts. A particular problem in the UK is that when the format of London numbers changed, from 071 xxxxxxx to 020 7xxxxxxx, a lot of people failed to understand that the new area code was 020, and not 0207, so you would generate invalid phone numbers as the result of forcing a split. > > For a bank sort code > <label for"sortcode">sort code</label><input type="text" id ="sortcode" * title="first 2 digits"> <input type="text" title="middle 2 * digits"> <input type="text" title="last 2 digits"> UK bank sort codes do have some structure, in that the first two digits are the company. Also, the delimiter is -, rather than space, even though the rest of the breakdown may be to make it easier for humans. I might accept breaking down the field in this case, although you should also consider how someone without a UK bank account would use the site. However, the use of the awkward titles tends to push me towards this being a single field as well.
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