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Using fieldsets outside of forms

By Isofarro on April 30th, 2009 - 2 comments

The focus on using the most appropriate markup in JavaScript enhanced pages has raised an interesting problem about the use of form elements outside of a form. And using a fieldset to group these elements together is proving to be a very useful way of making them accessible. Using form elements outside of a form […]

Using titles on form fields

By Isofarro on March 25th, 2008 - 3 comments

Form elements provide a decent range of accessibility options: label elements match up label text with their corresponding field elements, fieldsets group together similar input elements and the legend provides a succinct title for these groupings of fields. With those elements alone, forms are fairly simple to mark up in an accessible manner. The difficulty […]

Deciding when display: none is appropriate

By Isofarro on March 5th, 2008 - 8 comments

It’s common knowledge that screenreaders won’t read out content styled with display: none, but that doesn’t mean content should not be styled this way. There are times when it is appropriate to style content this way, but we need to be careful. Progressive enhancement with display: none Core content should never be styled with display: […]

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