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Tailslide
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Form Input Accessibility - 2/9/2008 12:19:46
Mike Cherim has uncovered a problem with one of the popular ways of laying out an accessible form - wrapping inputs with their labels within a label tag. One particular screenreader can't read the inputs when structured like this.
Apparently it's meant to be able to - but that doesn't help us, so best avoid this technique at least for the moment.
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=254#comment-23984
Unfortunately this was exactly what I'd been doing!
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Andy from Spain
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RE: Form Input Accessibility - 6/17/2008 6:08:46
I'm looking into this at the moment but have a form which is basically a search box followed by a submit button / image. According to "Cynthia" this is fine
<form method="post" action="searchpage.asp">
<input class="textarea" type="text" name="stext" size="20" alt="search"/><br/>
<input type="image" name="Submit" src="images/search.gif" alt="search"/>
</form>
..but surely a textarea shouldn't have an alt attribute and validate, or am I missing something?
Cheers
Andy
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