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[Jono Mingard <jonom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The WAVE accessibility checker gives errors for <label> tags which don't
have a 'for' attribute. Although this doesn't seem to be required by the
WCAG specification itself, it would be nice to remove these so that
Mahara's pages validate properly.

Affects the following areas
- Pieforms labels when the element doesn't use the correct ID (eg. for radio buttons the automatically generated label ends up not linking to anything)
- Profile sideblock ("My Groups" and "Artefacts" use the label tag unnecessarily)
- When editing the pages in a collection, the page titles use the label tag unnecessarily (it would be nice to change them to headings)
- On a group's "About" page the statistics ("Created", "Members", etc) use the label tag
- On a group's "Forums" page the "Group administrators" text uses the label tag

In all these cases the label tag should be changed to something more
appropriate (<strong>, <h3>, etc) or the "for" attribute should be
removed and aria-labelledby added to any elements which the label should
describe

Affects latest master

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New


** Tags: accessibility

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271778

Title:
  Orphaned labels should be removed (changed to non-label tags)

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  The WAVE accessibility checker gives errors for <label> tags which
  don't have a 'for' attribute. Although this doesn't seem to be
  required by the WCAG specification itself, it would be nice to remove
  these so that Mahara's pages validate properly.

  Affects the following areas
  - Pieforms labels when the element doesn't use the correct ID (eg. for radio buttons the automatically generated label ends up not linking to anything)
  - Profile sideblock ("My Groups" and "Artefacts" use the label tag unnecessarily)
  - When editing the pages in a collection, the page titles use the label tag unnecessarily (it would be nice to change them to headings)
  - On a group's "About" page the statistics ("Created", "Members", etc) use the label tag
  - On a group's "Forums" page the "Group administrators" text uses the label tag

  In all these cases the label tag should be changed to something more
  appropriate (<strong>, <h3>, etc) or the "for" attribute should be
  removed and aria-labelledby added to any elements which the label
  should describe

  Affects latest master

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