669312 - accessible name is duplicated when input has a label associated uisng for/id and is wrapped around the input

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 682790

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[steve faulkner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

go to http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-labels.html
use an inspect tool to view the accessible name for inputs in tests 4 and 6


Actual results:

the accessible name consists of the label text repeated


Expected results:

the accessible name consists of the label text

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Interesting! I this actuallz being done in the wild a lot, or is this a corner case, Steve_

Comment 2

[steve faulkner]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Interesting! I this actuallz being done in the wild a lot, or is this a
> corner case, Steve_

I don't have any figures on its use, but its a legitimate method for explcitly associating label text that is located both before and after an input.

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

marking as dupe of bug 682790 since that bug contains steps to fix.