Re: accessibility question

Hi Ray and Nancy (and group),
I have signed up for the HWG course on accessibility that starts next month,
but have found relatively little explicit information on how to code.(Often
a source says to "do" something without telling *how* to do it. The one
exception is image alt tags-- their use has been clearly explained in
numerous places, and software like Homesite prompts for them. I think most
people use them for pictures and logos, maybe not for buttons or dividers.

Ray, when you say "edit fields should be clearly marked," are you talking
about entering  default text? Many sites have a label (for example Name,
Email) outside the edit field but leave the text area blank.

As for form buttons, how are they labelled so a screen reader picks up the
designation "submit" if you are using the default html buttons?

I would like to have seen the page Nancy was talking about, to see what was
there and what missing, and where more info should be added.

Regards,
Pam Shorey :-)
> As a blind user what I think is meant here is that the graphic buttons
need labels such as submit
> button or go button  Edit fields should be clearly labeled.  I have run
into several sites where in
> a group of edit fields was not clearly labeled and all a screen reader
says when encountering these
> types of fields are the words edit or in the case of the above mentioned
buttons it will say the
> word button  and nothing else.

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