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Bob Schellink commented on CLK-544:
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Thanks for that Adrian. Can you point to some sites using this approach? Are
they high profile sites? Would be interesting to see high profile site
promoting this use of FieldSet.
I did a quick investigation on how screen readers interact with fieldsets and
stumbled upon this article:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=3
According to this article screen readers will *not* read the fieldset legend as
you tab down the form fields. Only fields *inside* the fieldset will have the
fieldset legend prefixed to the name of the field, providing the user with
feedback on what is contained inside the FieldSet.
Screen readers also has the command "Next Fieldset" (E) and "Previous Fieldset"
(shift+E) which won't work if FieldSet is used as a separator since the user
will be jumping from FieldSet to FieldSet but won't find any fields available
inside the fieldset.
Interesting stuff.
> FieldSeparator control.
> -----------------------
>
> Key: CLK-544
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-544
> Project: Click
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: examples
> Reporter: Adrian A.
> Assignee: Adrian A.
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.3.0
>
>
> In many forms it is required to use a "separator" between fields, to group
> them visually, but not to add them to a FieldSet (since this should be a pure
> visual effect).
> Adding the controls to a FieldSet also breaks the alignment between groups,
> since each FieldSet seems to be aligned differently (due to the use of tables
> for auto-rendering).
> A simple implementation for a FieldSeparator would look like the following
> snippet:
> <code>
> /**
> * A separator made by <b>re-using</b> the FieldSet control.<p/>
> * A special CSS style: <code>.fieldSeparator</code> is added to the HTML
> fieldset,
> * that draws only the bottom line:
> * <pre>
> * .fieldSeparator {
> * border-bottom:0;
> * border-left:0;
> * border-right:0;
> * border-top-width:4px;
> * }
> * </pre>
> *
> * @see net.sf.click.control.FieldSet
> */
> public class FieldSeparator extends FieldSet {
> public FieldSeparator() {
> }
> public FieldSeparator(String name) {
> super(name);
> addStyleClass("fieldSeparator");
> }
> public FieldSeparator(String name, String legend) {
> super(name, legend);
> addStyleClass("fieldSeparator");
> }
> // override container methods since this should be a pure visual control.
> // ....
> }
> </code>
> Thank you,
> A.
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