[WG: Accessibility] Do radio buttons for compact likert scale have associated labels?

[Richwine, Brian L]

Is it possible to get access to a live version of this, or is it only in the high-fidelity wireframe stage?

It would be quite possible to label the radio buttons in the compact likert scale for accessibility without a change in the visual rendering.

Besides using the label element, a radio button can be labeled using the title attribute. If the radio button does not have a corresponding label attribute, then most adaptive technologies will look to see if a title attribute is present and will use the title attribute as a fall back label (if present). So, the left most radio button could be labeled with the visible "Not at all" text and the right most radio button labeled with the "Very" text. The rest could be labeled using title attributes on the input element. For example:

<label> Strongly agree <input type="radio" ...></label>
<input type="radio" title="agree" ...>
<input type="radio" title="neutral" ...>
<input type="radio" title="disagree" ...>
<label><input type="radio" title="agree" ...> Strongly disagree</label>

Hope this helps... The title attribute is a common technique for label form elements for adaptive technologies when the designer does not want the label to be visible. For more info, see:

H65: Using the title attribute to identify form controls when the label element cannot be used
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H65

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Daphne Ogle
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:44 PM
To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org; Sakai Accessibility WG
Cc: Gary Thompson
Subject: [WG: Accessibility] Do radio buttons for compact likert scale have associated labels?

Hi all,

For eval sys, it looks like the inputs for the compact likert scale do not allow for associated labels.  And the endpoint labels that visually display aren't semantically associated to the end point inputs/radio buttons.  Is that true?  If so, this seems like a pretty major accessibility issue that we should look at.

Thanks for any insight!

- Daphne

Daphne Ogle-Glenn
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu
cell (925)348-4372





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