on 10/11/2006 05:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following:
Please could someone tell me what I'm obviously missing?
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Your text for each input isn't enclosed by the label element so the
explicit association is being lost.
Instead of:
<label for="a"><input type="radio" value="0" name="answer" alt="make
your mark" id="a" accesskey="l" tabindex="2" /></label>Text<br />
It should be
<label for="a"><input type="radio" value="0" name="answer" alt="make
your mark" id="a" accesskey="l" tabindex="2" />Text</label><br />
Personally I'd also:
1. Scrap the accesskeys. All of the keys you're using conflict with
keystrokes reserved for JAWS, Home Page Reader, Firefox/Mozilla and
Opera 7:
http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43
2. Get rid of the tabindexing. If your natural tab order is intuitive,
you don't need it. The last thing you should do is interfere with the
intuitive tab ordering on a page. It can drive keyboard navigators up
the wall.
3. Get rid of the tabled layout. What you posted is simple enough to
achieve without tabling.
4. Change the title attribute on your link from "Off Site Link" to
"Opens in new window". In fact, consider either not spawning a new
window or placing the warning in clear text and, if necessary, using css
to position it offscreen. A significant number of screen reader users
configure their software to ignore the title attribute (because it's so
over-used) so will not be pre-warned about the new window.
Automated accessibility parser warnings about tab indexes and access
keys can be safely ignored provided you've actually tested the keybaord
navigation of the page yourself and you're happy that it behaves logically.
Hope that helps
Mel
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