Label element 'for' attribute question

[Michael S Elledge]

That's an interesting idea, Eli! I've only seen fieldset and legend used 
for grouping similar questions within a form, not for elements within a 
question. How does it sound with a screen reader?

Mike

Eli Cochran wrote:
> I think that the way to handle this is not with a label tag at all but 
> the <fieldset> and <legend> tags which are a standard way to group 
> form elements together.
>
> There are some standard styles applied to these elements which should 
> be overridden by our css-reset.
>
> - Eli
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a question about best practices around the 'for' attribute on 
>> a <label> element.
>>
>> UI Options has a group of checkboxes for how to highlight links. Each 
>> of the checkboxes has its own label, and the 'for' attributes 
>> reference the relevant input fields. However, the collection of 
>> checkboxes also has a label.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to associate the 'group' <label> with the 
>> collection of checkboxes? I've checked the WCAG guidelines, but 
>> they've not been helpful.
>>
>> --Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
> ETS, UC Berkeley
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