RE: Order of items on form

I would say inside: if you say what a form serves for, user should first know that there is a form around. If they didn't here 'form' in their screen reader first, they won't know.


Régine Lambrecht
Tipik SA
Brussels
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Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:42 AM
To: WAI Interest Group list
Subject: Order of items on form

Dear All

Help with fieldsets

which is the prefered method for marking up form elemets

ie

<fieldset>
   <legend>Test<l/egend>
    <p>Descriptive text of the form purpose</p>
    <lablel for="testitem">Test Form Item<lable>
    <input type="test" id="testitem" />
</fieldset>


Or
 <p>Descriptive text of the form purpose</p>
<fieldset>
   <legend>Test<l/egend>
    <lablel for="testitem">Test Form Item<lable>
    <input type="test" id="testitem" />
</fieldset>



ie have the <p> tag to describe the form fuction to the user either inside or outside  the fieldset

Regards

Andrew
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