[thelist] Color Chooser Review -- correction

[Martin Burns]

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On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 01:10  am, .jeff wrote:

>> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>> From: Tom Dell'Aringa
>>
>>> 2. Hitting the target: You DON'T have to hit the radio
>>>    button with my solution (as I mentioned earlier) I
>>>    have used an anchor in a span tag that calls the
>>>    same function as called when the radio button hits.
>>
>> Correction, my bad -- not an anchor, but the onClick
>> method calls it via the SPAN tag.
>> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> ah, even worse then for keyboard users since the span tag doesn't show
> focus
> or give you any alternate way of indicating the radio button has the
> focus.

And also http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html

In General (Priority 2)
3.6 Mark up lists and list items properly.

And if you use forms (Priority 2)
10.2 Until user agents support explicit associations between labels and
form controls, for all form controls with implicitly associated labels,
ensure that the label is properly positioned. 	  	  	 
12.4 Associate labels explicitly with their controls.

And if you use applets and scripts (Priority 2)
6.4 For scripts and applets, ensure that event handlers are input
device-independent.
9.3 For scripts, specify logical event handlers rather than
device-dependent event handlers

where
[Priority 2]
A Web content developer should satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one
or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the
document. Satisfying this checkpoint will remove significant barriers to
accessing Web documents.

(if you're interested in the appropriate Section508 info, see
1194.22(n) - it's generally assumed that Section508 rules will be the
ones used to interpret the ADA principles)

Given that employers (with > 15 employees - would you need an intranet
if you had fewer than this?) are covered entities under the ADA
(http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/ada.html, or Section 101 if you want to go
through the full act http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt), and
adding labels to form fields sounds like reasonable accommodation that
would not cause undue hardship, it's pretty clear that a US-based
intranet is required to do this.

(note for non Americans there are equivalent obligations for other
countries too - in the UK it's Part II of the 1995 Disability
Discrimination Act)

Cheers
Martin
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