8680 2010-01-08 10:23:11 +0000 Meaningful label in menu example 2010-10-04 14:27:57 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT CLOSED WONTFIX http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/interactive-elements.html#menus-intro a11y P2 normal --- 1 gez.lemon ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 30756 0 gez.lemon 2010-01-08 10:23:11 +0000 The menu example has a label element with "Go to", a label attribute of "Go", and the first option element contains, "Select site". The label attribute seems redundant. The label element doesn't have meaningful text, and the option element contains an item that would be more suitable as a label. Maybe something like this could work? <select> <label>Choose a value</label> <option>...</option> ... </select> The label would render as the displayed text of the select, and also provide its accessible name, but would not be selectable itself. 31534 1 ian 2010-02-05 23:02:22 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The label="" attribute is the only one that renders. The other two are only used in legacy UAs. 31827 2 cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:42 +0000 Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.