Re: Order of items on form

Dear Andrew,

I would go with the second example where the purpose of the form is explained before the fieldset and before the form. 
If think that if you place this paragraph within the fieldset it will not be read out by a screenreader in forms mode and the information could be lost.
Only legend and label will be read out in forms mode. 

Kind regards,

Gijs 

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Op 19-nov-2009, om 11:42 heeft Andy Laws het volgende geschreven:

> 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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