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Lucien Stals
Multimedia/Web Developer
Academic Development and Support
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia
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>>> On 6/06/2007 at 1:25 pm, Nick Gleitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Lucien Stals wrote:
>
>> I suspect that the following code...
>>
>> <fieldset><legend>staff details</legend>
>> <dl>
>> <dt>email</dt><dd>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</dd>
>> <dt>phone</dt><dd>12345678</dd>
>> </dl>
>> </fieldset>
>>
>> Is perfectly valid, semantic markup which a screen reader would
render
>> just fine.
>
> Logical, no doubt of it. But see Steve Green's post which said, "JAWS
> ... can only enter 'forms mode' when a form control has focus."
>
> Does that mean that JAWS won't read the contents of the <legend>
> element because it's not in 'forms mode'? And if not, how important
is
> it for clarification of what follows that the legend be read? If the
> answer to that is 'not', or 'optional', there's not much point in
> including it - is there?
>
Hmm. It's an interesting point. I'd still be curious to find out what
does in fact happen. But if that's correct, then using the fieldset this
way has no practical benefit for people using assistive devices. In
which case we might be doing nothing more than drawing a pretty box
around some text, which is a presentational issue best done with CSS
anyway.
I think it could still be of semantic use to sighted users.
Lucien.
Swinburne University of Technology
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