| Title | Password field without label |
|---|---|
| Description | A document with a simple form that contains only a password field. There is no label element next to the input field. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (evlach@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-29 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: input
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: The INPUT element .
Feature: label
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: The LABEL element .
The test case is intended to fail because the input field has no label.
Automatic evaluation.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 11, column 71: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
Without the label, users cannot determine the purpose of the form field.
The test case maps to failure F68: Failure of SC 1.3.1 and 4.1.2 due to the association of label and user interface controls not being programmatically determinable.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 12, column 48: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
Without the label, users cannot determine the purpose of the form field.
Online version: sc1.3.1_l1_042.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 12, column 48: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#content-structure-separation-programmatic.
Without the label, users cannot determine the purpose of the form field.