#88558 - labels being focusable

[Tobias Anton]

On Freitag, 15. Oktober 2004 13:13, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>  I'm not sure what you mean with a label for a link. It it supposed to be
> just something like this?
>
>  <label>click <a href="url">here</a></label>

Rather something like
<label for="a_link"> activate me! </label>
blah lots of html with many line breaks blah
<a id="a_link"><img src="picture_link_for_mouse_users.gif"></a>

>  I fail to see the point of focusable labels.
<extra whining left out>
> The ability to focus a label is just getting in the way of focusing the 
element itself.

My point is about accessibility. Everything that can be activated by mouse 
should be activatable via keyboard as well. This paradigm requires labels to 
be focusable. Maybe, however, only those labels need to be focusable that 
carry a for-attribute which points to an element outside the label.

Cheers
-- Tobias