[Websg Meetup] Russ Weakley's CSS Worshop

[draco]

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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