Re: Implicit labels

I would say that’s outdated information. I don’t know of any screen readers that don’t support wrapped labels. 

Maybe there’s a bug with Dragon but it should be fixed if so. 

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist 
www.deque.com

> On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Balusani, Shirisha <sirib@uillinois.edu> wrote:
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> To be more clear:
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> The HTML and XHTML specifications allow both implicit and explicit labels. However, some assistive technologies do not correctly handle implicit labels (for example, <label>First name <input type="text" name="firstname"></label>).
> Is that still true or is it outdated information?
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> _____________________________________________
> From: Balusani, Shirisha 
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 10:58 AM
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Subject: Implicit labels
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> Is implicit labelling is supported by all screen readers in all browsers?
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> Do we have to use for and id along with the implicit labels to make sure that the element tied to label is read by all AT users?
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> Thanks
> Siri