- From: Al Gilman <al.gilman@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:05:13 -0500
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org
The orientation information for filling out a form is the general topic for which "context help" is a subset. Labeling is the base level of orientation. That is to say, let's use 'labeling' to describe a level of orientation that is always or usually presented to the user in the context of controls where they have the opportunity to perform an input action. The difficulty of parsing this out into 'content fragments' rationalized in the markup structure of the document and 'dialog flow' constructued by the user agent from those fragments is illustrated by a current thread on a very simple form, the ubiquitous search tool: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003OctDec/thread.html#474 But this is a good thread. The two points that John Slatin raises are key facts of web usability for the screen reader user. Al
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