Accessibility Features
The HTML 4.01 Recommendation added a few form elements and attributes that aid in accessibility . Some provide improved ways to group and label form structure and content. Others provide keyboard alternatives for selecting and activating (such as bringing focus to) form fields.
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The added benefit of elements that describe the structure and relationships within form content is that they provide good “hooks” for applying style sheet rules, as addressed briefly at the end of this chapter.
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