[thelist] Accessibility and Validation at War

[Ben Dyer]

Hey people,

I've been working on a standard "template" to start from for new sites. I 
wanted it to be able to make a clean sweep through both Bobby and the W3C 
Validator.

I ran it through Bobby first and it said to add the <fieldset> tag around 
my block of radio buttons (plus the label) and the <legend> tag around the 
label for that fieldset. I set it up around my <tr> block (the entire form 
is in a table) like so: 
</tr><fieldset><tr><td>...</td></tr></fieldset><tr>, etc.

Now, I ran it through the W3C validator and it doesn't care for that at all 
(I'm shooting for XHTML 1.0 Transitional). It says only <tr> can go there, 
not <fieldset>.

I'm not sure what to do, moving the fieldset anywhere else (like within the 
<td>) would make the file not well-formed. I really don't want to remove 
the table if I can help it, but I'm hoping there might be an easier 
solution (short of abandoning accessibility or validation).

Anybody tried something like this before?

Thanks.

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Ben Dyer
Senior Internet Developer
Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com
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