Hi, No, that's not old fashioned, it's quite the opposite - it's designing for the future. It's designing for the wide range of user needs (rather than ones own graphic design sensibilities), which is still a new concept for many Web designers.
Stuart On Sun, April 15, 2007 3:50 am, Katrina wrote: > Bojana Lalic wrote: >> Hi all >> >> >> >> Accverify fails my code because my input element does not contain the >> alt attribute or label. >> >> >> I don't want any text displayed before or after the query text input >> element. Should I wrap a label around the input element and then hide it >> using css? How do I get around this accessibility issue? >> >> > > I know I'm rather old-fashioned, by why not display text beforehand? > > <label for="search">Search for: </label> > <input type="text" id="search"/> > <input type="submit" value="go"/> > > It's explicit rather than implicit what is required in that field. I > regularly run into problems with forms because apparently everybody is > supposed to know what goes in them (I have to spend time figuring it out). > > But I suppose it's all down to what happens in your user testing :) > > Kat > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > -- Stuart Foulstone. http://www.bigeasyweb.co.uk BigEasy Web Design 69 Flockton Court Rockingham Street Sheffield S1 4EB Tel. 07751 413451 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
