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[Ian Anderson]

aardvark wrote:

> except IE blows that away by not properly supporting it...

Sorry, but IE on Windows supports label with for="id" absolutely fine. 
What issues are you referring to?

> also, if you do wrap the form element and its label text within the 
> <label>, the id is no longer necessary -- it's implied...

The reason for adding the for="id" is that without it - even if the form 
control is nested inside the label - IE Win does not make the label 
clickable.

For accessibility for people with poor motor control, it is important to 
give them the ability to click on the label text to check or uncheck the 
checkbox. This is why for accessibility the label with for="id" is a 
requirement, not an optional extra.

Nest the form control if you like, or not - it has no practical 
implications in real-world accessibility. I showed them separately to 
illustrate the structure that would apply within a table or in other 
situations where markup separated the form control and label; the point 
being precisely that the nesting doesn't matter.

A final note in agreement with a point someone else made - there's a lot 
more to accessibility than WCAG; much of it is now out of date, and it 
does not adequately explain how to achieve real-world results.

Cheers

Ian

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