| Title | No programmatic association between textarea and label [new] |
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| Description | A document containing a simple form with a textarea, a password field, a reset button and a submit button. The textarea has no explicit label (label element); instead, the ‘label’ is provided as a text string positioned above the control.
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| 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: textarea
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The textarea element
.
The test case is intended to fail because the association between the textarea 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 label of the textarea.
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.