On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:30 AM, David Dorward wrote: > > >> I have been using WCAG20-TECHS for quite sometimes to keep up with WCAG 2.0, >> therefore I really want to know if the articles written there can't be >> trusted but to follow the HTML spec religiously. > > > They should do, but people do make mistakes. This isn't a matter of deviating > from the spec though.
These "Sufficient and Advisory Techniques" appear to be written for screen readers in mind, and that they provide a deep informative guidelines to developers including me who don't have luxury to perform all sort of screen readers testing using pricy software so I am not sure it's a mere mistake from an old UI convention, at least from the number of examples presented, it doesn't look to me the case. Or the author got influenced by specific screen reader(s)? It links to a "Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0 article" by Roger Hudson that shows the differences between Read mode and Form mode. For GUI UA, the order of the the two attribtues doesn't matter. VoiceOver reads the label first even when it's placed after input attribute, but then I don't know if VoiceOver is more standard compliant than other screen readers or not. Is there a way to find out who wrote it and contact him/her for clarification? Clearly, all the articles in WCAG20-TECHS are not written by anyone/everyone who owns a blog, so I am giving the benefit of doubt that there might be a good reason. Can others who deal with JAWS and Window Eyes comment on this? Thanks! tee ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
