on 13/10/2006 19:29 Rob O'Rourke said the following:
Ted Drake wrote:
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Is this valid?: <legend><h5>blah blah blah</h5></legend>
Fraid not, I checked back to html 4 transitional using this: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/DTDMapper/
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I thought the legend tag was supposed to offer some effects for screen readers when reading out the form controls. Out of curiosity do you know which screen reader it is?
JAWS? I've come across some evidence that suggest that, when in Forms Mode, JAWS will only read text enclosed in form controls. Assuming that JAWS correctly identifies legend as a bona fide form control, it should render the legend before reading out the inputs. Text within the form tags that aren't enclosed in form controls, however, may be missed.
I'm currently trying to find out if this is still the case with the latest version of JAWS and whether it's an issue with other screen readers. If it is, it impacts on additional text/instructions that might accompany specific inputs.
If I we're you I'd just give the legends an accesskey, then you have navigation across more of browser land.
How do you communicate the approprate accesskey to the user? My own research amongst keyboard navigators suggest that very few, if any, will bother to 'learn' accesskeys associated with a specific site. After all, would you? If people don't already 'know' the relevant accesskey, its usefulness becomes debatable.
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