[thelist] Accessibility v XHTML

[Ivo Pletikosic]

One note I had to deal with recently. Several versions of popular screen
readers did not read labels associated with lists. The solution was to
make the first option of the dropdown list have the same text as the
label.

<select name='state' id='state'>Select state
<option>Select state...</option>
....etc
</select>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of mlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Wonder if anyone can help. I've got a website that is 
> currently XHTML 1.0
> Transitional compliant, but I wish to improve its 
> accessibility compliance.
> 
> The page has a drop-down, and I've put a label next to it:
> 
> <label for="quickselect">Clients</label>
> <select id="quickSelect" name="clients" 
> onchange="window.location.href =
> this.value;">
> 
> So, this reduces the error count in Bobby, but <label /> is not XHTML
> compliant. How can I get round this and be XHTML compliant? 
> Anyone got any
> ideas?
> 
> Thanks, M.