[Websg Meetup] Russ Weakley's CSS Worshop

[Divya Manian]

Hi 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>" which makes
it easier for them to browse through long forms and keep the context of the
input box. 

Regards,
Divya



On 2/9/07 8:36 PM, "draco" <kodeiko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> On 2/9/07, choonkeat <choonkeat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm.. hopefully someone can shed light on how I should do this. First of
>> all, I'm a lazy person... so I'd only like to learn to do things properly
>> once, and hopefully never be conscious of doing them again and again by
>> getting my toys to do them instead... especially for <form />
>> 
>> Previously I do Name: <input /><br /> plainly, sprinkle a <p /> here or
>> there to make a form... and sometimes using tables.
>> 
>> Recently I'd repented to using CSS with standard layout of
>> <dl>
>>  <dt><label for="someid">Name</label></dt>
>>  <dd><input id="someid" /></dd>
>>  <dl>
>> 
>> And was just feeling smug until I see <fieldset /> and <legend />.. where
>> example usages are identical (to me) to <label/> and <dl/>...
>> 
>> So.. is there advise for me on what's The Mother Theresa Way (tm) of doing
>> forms?
>> 
>> 
>> Repented, lazy soul,
>> choonkeat
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/9/07, Murray Bourne <murraybourne at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Good to meet some of you again at the CSS workshop yesterday.
>>> 
>>> My writeup:
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/russ-weakleys-css-worshop/539
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Murray Bourne
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