- From: Ramón Corominas <listas@ramoncorominas.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:22:41 +0100
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi all, We are developing a tool to manage different fields related to many records in a dataset. The information is presented as a data table to show and edit the values of each record, so the column headers act as labels for each field, and row headers identify each record. For example, imagine that you have a chess shop: Columns: Piece, color, material, unit price Rows: King, Queen, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Pawn Thus, we need to construct the "label" for each field combining both row and column headers "Queen color", "Knight unit price", etc. We have tested aria-labelledby to do this, and it seems to work fine with all the screen readers and platforms that we have tested (JAWS & NVDA w/ IE & FF, VoiceOver w/ Safari). We have also seen that this technique has been submitted to the WCAG WG [1]. However, I cannot find it in the Techniques document, so I don't know if there is a reason to avoiding it. What do you think? Would it be acceptable to use aria-labelledby as the only way to label a form control? Thanks in advance, Ramón. [1] Associating multiple labels with a form control using ARIA-LABELLEDBY http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-techs/2010Aug/0000.html
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