[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29955: Section 508 issues found on WordPress 4.0 admin page.

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#29955: Section 508 issues found on WordPress 4.0 admin page.
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 Reporter:  johnnygo        |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  4.0
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 About 2. and 3. made some testing:
 - Firefox + NVDA date and time labels are read out correctly
 - IE 8 + JAWS 15 labels are completely ignored

 Seems because those labels are associated implicitly with their controls,
 which is valid markup, but maybe JAWS isn't happy with this:
 {{{
 <label>some label text <input ...></label>
 }}}
 Quickly tried to give them an explicit association with `for` and `ID`
 {{{
 <label for="someid">some label text</label> <input id="someid" ...>
 }}}
 JAWS gets happy and reads out the labels correctly.
 Maybe new versions of JAWS don't have this issue, to be honest I don't
 know and unfortunately I can't test IE 9/10/11 and JAWS 16. This would
 require some discussion and testing by the accessibility team.

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