357680 - add an option to not send <label> spam to timeless

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[timeless]

I'm sorry. I'm a long time Bugzilla user. I'm also a power user. one of the features i use is double clicking any part of a web page that is not a *visible* form control or *visible* link to get my cursor *out* of a form control so that i  can scroll the page with my keyboard.

these labels mean that when I'm in any drop down control because i moused to it, i now have to move my mouse very very carefully to some uninhabited region of the page in order to escape the annoying form control.

This is seriously harming my ability to use Bugzilla. and it's causing me to lose my temper. this hurts everyone. all i want is an option to get rid of all these annoying labels.

SINCERELY,
one very disgruntled former Bugzilla power user.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

INVALID/WONTFIX

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

WONTFIX -- <label> is required for accessibility, and adding a preference to turn it off would be used by only an extremely small percentage of users.

Comment 3

[timeless]

$LABEL = "LABEL";

$LABEL = "DIV";

all you have to do is use $LABEL instead of LABEL. and then if the user doesn't want labels the label variable spits out a DIV.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

timless, there are hundreds of <label> tags in Bugzilla, and they're all in templates. It's not that simple, and we're not going to modify every single template in Bugzilla just for this feature.

Every accessible website in the world uses (or should use) <label> tags. They have a very important purpose, particularly for the blind. Also, most people appreciate beign able to click on a label and have it select the field.

If you don't like what the browser does with them, complain to the browser manufacturer.

But we absolutely, definitely will not change this in Bugzilla. If you have a problem with this decision, you can take it up with justdave, but please don't reopen this bug.

Comment 5

[timeless]

justdave: i have a serious problem with this./