Here's what I figured out.
When you have a frame, you need to specify what the content is. You could do this
with a title tag or even better, distinct text in the body of the frame. for
instance, you would say, this is the navigation frame.
I did both. I put a title attribute on the iframe saying title="dynamic calendar" and
in the body of the iframe I added
<span class="hidden">Dynamic Calendar for form fields</span>.
This satisfied the requirements and we are now 508 compliant and wai level 1 happy.
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To satisfy level 2 I have a problem with a series of input fields. For multiple
travelers, we have 10 boxes for ages. I have a label associated with the first age
and then alt tags on the following inputs. Should I wrap all ten inputs in the lable
tag as I've seen elsewhere? I'd rather not create a label for each ten boxes. What
do you think?
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Drake
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] question about iframe accessibility
We are using a popup calendar for forms on our site and it uses an iframe for the
calendar.
I'm getting this message from the developers toolbar 508 checker
Rule: 1.1.6 - All IFRAME elements are required to contain element content.
* Failure - IFRAME Element at Line: 362, Column: 1
I'm not very familiar with iframes. What do you think it is asking for?
Here's a reference page
http://v4.csatravelprotection.com/csa/twelcome.do
and the appropriate code:
<iframe width="132" height="142" name="gToday:contrast:agenda.js"
id="gToday:contrast:agenda.js" src="../js/cal/ipopeng.htm" scrolling="no"
frameborder="0" style="visibility:visible; z-index:999; position:absolute;
left:-500px; top:0px;" >
</iframe>
There is a javascript that populates this iframe. Do you think the validation engine
would be happy with a simple comment tag inside the iframe before the javascript
populates it? I'll try for the heck of it. Any other ideas?
Ted
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