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Sandra Earl

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: Fieldsets, Legend... - 0 views

  • Some tips from the article include:Fieldset and Legend tags must be used together, never independently of each other.Keep the content of the Legend tag brief (the Legend may be read when each of the controls contained in a Fieldset receive focus.)In Windows Eyes, the option to read the Legend tag is off by default.Fieldsets may be nested.
Vernon Fowler

Prettier Accessible Forms · An A List Apart Article - 0 views

  • The fieldset element allows us to group form controls into logical, related “chunks.” legend then allows us to add a caption to that fieldset, which helps users understand the context of the form controls contained within that fieldset. In some screen readers, the legend is associated with each form control within a fieldset and is read out after each tab of the keyboard, so that a particular control can always be referenced back to its legend.
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    "The most important part of a form is the HTML we use to build it. Fortunately, HTML gives us a nice assortment of tags to build our forms in an accessible way. These are fieldset, legend, and label."
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