[WSG] accessibilty: avoid radio buttons?
I am building a site that must meet wcag 2.0 compliant. A web form has radio buttons option, and according to afb.org: Radio buttons are not supported consistently by all versions of browsers, screen readers, and combinations. A correctly labeled and tagged set of radio buttons is a very difficult control for users of screen-reading technology. If a choose only one situation is called for, a select menu is preferable. Is this a sound advice? Thanks! tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] accessibilty: avoid radio buttons?
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:14 AM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: I am building a site that must meet wcag 2.0 compliant. A web form has radio buttons option, and according to afb.org: Radio buttons are not supported consistently by all versions of browsers, screen readers, and combinations. A correctly labeled and tagged set of radio buttons is a very difficult control for users of screen-reading technology. If a choose only one situation is called for, a select menu is preferable. Is this a sound advice? Thanks! tee Tee, does it work with a keyboard only? Can you operate it with a screen reader like NVDA with your eyes closed? There's a whole lot more to code-level conformance than those two things, and a whole lot more to WCAG 2.0 conformance than code-level conformance, but if you get those two things right then you've made a brilliant start. Best regards, Andrew -- --- Andrew Boyd http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] accessibilty: avoid radio buttons?
Andrew, Keyboard yes, not sure about NVDA as I don't have this software, but accessible for VoiceOver. Thanks! tee On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:14 AM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: I am building a site that must meet wcag 2.0 compliant. A web form has radio buttons option, and according to afb.org: Radio buttons are not supported consistently by all versions of browsers, screen readers, and combinations. A correctly labeled and tagged set of radio buttons is a very difficult control for users of screen-reading technology. If a choose only one situation is called for, a select menu is preferable. Is this a sound advice? Thanks! tee Tee, does it work with a keyboard only? Can you operate it with a screen reader like NVDA with your eyes closed? There's a whole lot more to code-level conformance than those two things, and a whole lot more to WCAG 2.0 conformance than code-level conformance, but if you get those two things right then you've made a brilliant start. Best regards, Andrew -- --- Andrew Boyd http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] accessibilty: avoid radio buttons?
You are mixing up two unrelated issues. As long as the radio buttons are marked up correctly, they will be WCAG 2.0 compliant. The AFB's opinion is irrelevant in this respect. The AFB's comments are of interest with regard to the user experience, and it would be helpful if they justified their statement. In my opinion, based on years of user testing with screen reader users, radio buttons need not be difficult to use and are almost never very difficult to use. I would agree that they are slightly more difficult to use than a select element, and they are definitely more difficult to use if they are contained in a fieldset and the legend contains a lot of text (the legend is read out before the label for each radio button). You have to balance this against the fact that radio buttons are generally preferred by most users because they can see all the options at a glance and only one click is necessary instead of two. Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org on behalf of tee Sent: Sun 17/07/2011 00:14 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] accessibilty: avoid radio buttons? I am building a site that must meet wcag 2.0 compliant. A web form has radio buttons option, and according to afb.org: Radio buttons are not supported consistently by all versions of browsers, screen readers, and combinations. A correctly labeled and tagged set of radio buttons is a very difficult control for users of screen-reading technology. If a choose only one situation is called for, a select menu is preferable. Is this a sound advice? Thanks! tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** winmail.dat
