Hi Gail. i was just thinking about this last night. After recently
reading Eat Shoots and Leaves i've become more aware of punctuation
and how it aids in the rhythm of words, and phrases, and thus
comprehension. it would seem to me that a colon would help a screen
reader user. and your
Yes, but it also depends on the context. Remember that the input does
not nessisarily follow the label. And in some situations, a colon might
not fit (visually).
Alan Trick
Zach Inglis wrote:
It makes things easier to associate in my opinion. At the end of the day
its just punctuation... like
A colon is often used to delineate a key:value pairs (e.g. mail headers
[RFC822]). Perhaps the convention to use this for labels: form controls
grew out of this before the intorduction of the label element?
Now that we have actual label elements that we can associate with form
controls, this type
Title: Is a colon after a form label necessary?
We are establishing Web standards for forms and are debating this.
Heres what I have gleaned based on reading the references cited below.
1. Colons are hard to see on a screen. (Reference 1.)
2. W3C does not state a requirement for a colon
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We are establishing Web standards for forms
It makes things easier to associate in my opinion. At the end of the day its just punctuation... like using a full stop to separate content. It may help too when the CSS is turned off.Zach Inglis // www.zachinglis.comOn 13 Oct 2005, at 02:18, McLaughlin, Gail G wrote: We are establishing Web
