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August 4, 2008
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Review of “Web Form Design, Filling in the Blanks”

“Forms suck.  If you don’t believe me, try to find people who like filling them in.”
Are you kidding, I paid for a book that begins like that?  My first reaction was that I could have written that!  Well I didn’t write it, and I also feel that I got my money’s worth out of Web [...]

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March 9, 2008
Posted by Eddie

Using the label element for form accessibility

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things:

It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element.
For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger [...]

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