[Websg Meetup] Russ Weakley's CSS Worshop

[choonkeat]

Many moons late, but I've just released something for Rails programmers in
this list to do produce this markup without looking
http://blog.yanime.org/articles/2007/04/02/now-ive-finally-gotten-this-out-of-the-way

Thanks all for your advice.
--
choonkeat

On 2/11/07, draco <kodeiko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yup, that's how I did my forms(http://dedicatedtutors.com/student.php)
> too. ;-)
>
> Way to go budd!
>
> On 2/11/07, choonkeat <choonkeat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see, so they're replacing something else. I'll switch my habit of
> grouping
> > with divs/h2s/h3s to using fieldset+legend combo instead.
> >
> > <form ...>
> >   <fieldset>
> >      <legend>Some Context</legend>
> >     <dl>
> >        <dt><label for="someid">Name</label></dt>
> >        <dd><input id="someid" ... /></dd>
> >      <dl>
> >   </fieldset>
> > </form>
> >
> > In order to be accessible with least effort, this shall be the way I
> markup
> > all my forms. Styling is a separate matter.
> >
> > Thanks for the enlightenment ppl!
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > choonkeat
> >
> > > Russ was explaining how blind users read fieldsets, apparently, if you
> > group
> > > together items in a fieldset then the screen reader will read the
> input
> > item
> > > within that field set as "<legend name> <input item label name>"
> >
> > > fieldset and legend are for grouping common items in a form together,
> > > that's all. use them all together for an accessible form. good luck.
> >
> > --
> > choonkeat
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Regards,
> draco
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