[thelist] Accessibility and Validation at War
Ben Dyer
ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Wed Feb 28 17:30:40 CST 2001
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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