Good morning,
It's not that the fieldset and legend elements need to replace the
label elements here, but the will supplement the label element. If
the checkboxes are all pertaining to the same topic then this would be
the best approach.
As for how it sounds, each AT treats this differently. Some ATs
ignore the fieldset/legend altogether, some speak the legend (label)
when you tab to the first control in a fieldset, but not for the
subsequent controls, others sspeak the legend for each control in the
fieldset.
For instance, for the following code JAWS would speak "Group of
Checkboxes, checkbox 1"
<fieldset>
<legend>Group of Checkboxes</legend>
<input type=checkbox" id="cb1" />
<label for="cb1">Checkbox 1</label>
</fieldset>
HTH,
Everett
On 25-Mar-09, at 10:52 AM, Michael S Elledge wrote:
That's an interesting idea, Eli! I've only seen fieldset and legend
used for grouping similar questions within a form, not for elements
within a question. How does it sound with a screen reader?
Mike
Eli Cochran wrote:
I think that the way to handle this is not with a label tag at all
but the <fieldset> and <legend> tags which are a standard way to
group form elements together.
There are some standard styles applied to these elements which
should be overridden by our css-reset.
- Eli
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
I have a question about best practices around the 'for' attribute
on a <label> element.
UI Options has a group of checkboxes for how to highlight links.
Each of the checkboxes has its own label, and the 'for' attributes
reference the relevant input fields. However, the collection of
checkboxes also has a label.
Does anyone know how to associate the 'group' <label> with the
collection of checkboxes? I've checked the WCAG guidelines, but
they've not been helpful.
--Anastasia Cheetham [email protected]
Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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