https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/meaningful-labels-for-accessibility Gravity Support Forums Topic: Meaningful labels for accessibility en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:44:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/meaningful-labels-for-accessibility#post-90472 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:13:48 +0000 Chris Hajer 90472@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'll move this one to feature requests so we don't lose track of it. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/meaningful-labels-for-accessibility#post-90063 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:35:45 +0000 tmarasca 90063@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@ jcollier -<br /> I'm glad to see people looking at this (pretty awesome) plugin through the accessibility lens.<br /> In fact, I only found your post by searching for common accessibility keywords..</p> <p>that aside, in your code snippet above, you should be OK.<br /> The proper way to associate the "for" attribute with an element is via 'id' and not 'name' </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/meaningful-labels-for-accessibility#post-60808 Wed, 30 May 2012 12:04:28 +0000 jcollier 60808@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I note that field names are assigned generic ID attributes, like "input_1_1" and then the label for attribute is also generic, "input_1_1".</p> <pre><code>&lt;label class=&#39;gfield_label&#39; for=&#39;input_1_1&#39;&gt;Name&lt;/label&gt;: &lt;input name=&#39;input_1&#39; id=&#39;input_1_1&#39; type=&#39;text&#39; value=&#39;&#39; class=&#39;medium&#39; tabindex=&#39;1&#39; /&gt;</code></pre> <p>For a screen reader, I think the label is read out loud, which doesn't help identify the field.</p> <p>Is there any way to have the generated ID match the field name, even if there is a prefix or suffix to the namespace to make sure there are no collisions? </p>