Part of Item: Common Failures
Comment Type: TE
Comment (including rationale for proposed change):
While there are two HTML techniques about labeling form controls--\"H44 (Using label elements to associate text labels with form controls)\" and \"H65 (Using the title attribute to identify form controls when the label element cannot be used)\"--there is no common failure about _not_ labeling form controls. This also applies to 4.1.2.
Proposed Change:
Add a common failure about not labeling form controls.
SC 4.1.2 and SC 1.1.1 require that form controls have names. The name may be provided in a way that is not a (visible) label.
SC 1.3.1 requires that if a form control has a label, then the association between the label and the form control can be programmatically determined.
To encourage the use of labels when appropriate, we have added an advisory technique to SC 1.3.1 and SC 4.1.2:
Providing labels for all form controls that do not have implicit labels (future link)
Developed and maintained by Jon Hardin at the Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
$Date: 2007/05/17 13:52:57 $ $Author: bcaldwel $