Re: [office-accessibility] ODF radio button groups

[Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@Sun.COM>]

Malte Timmermann wrote, On 10/ 6/08 02:09 PM:
> My thoughts on radio button groups:
> 
> In our previous discussions we very often mixed up 2 things:
> 
> 1) The button group
> 2) The label/frame/relation
> 
> The button group:
> The grouping is done via form:name, and it works independently from any
> any other (visual) elements.
> 
> The label/frame/relation:
> The radio buttons as well as other form controls can be contained in
> some form:frame. The form_frame can have some form:for to list all
> elements included, but: It can contain multiple radio button groups as
> well as other elements.
> 
> So for me the frame is only something for visualizing the group, and for
> having relations which can be expose via AT or be used by other
> processing tools.
> 
> I think form:name on the radio button is the only way to define groups.
> 
> For the implementor guide lines I would recommend apps to automatically
> use the same form:name for all radio buttons in a frame when created by
> the author, but allow the author to overwrite.
> 
> Only the fact that multiple radio buttons are contained in a frame
> doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be treated as a group.
> 
> Malte.
> 
> 
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