| Title | No programmatic association between text field and label [new] |
|---|---|
| Description | A document containing a simple form with a text input field, a reset button and a submit button. The text input field has no label: the ‘label’ is just a text string positioned in front of the input field. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2007-08-24 |
| Status | validated |
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: form
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The form element
.
Feature: input
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The input element
.
The test case is intended to fail because the association between the text input field and its label is not explicit but based on physical location.
Accessibility expert.
“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 : http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/Overview.html#ensure-compat-rsv.
Assistive technology may make an incorrect guess regarding the field’s label.
This 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.