Radio buttons without fieldset Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

All radio button groups should be contained in a fieldset element.

Help

When a screen reader reads a page in Forms Mode it skips all markup other than form fields, labels and legends. Generally each radio button label is the answer to a question (e.g. Yes/No, Male/Female), so fieldset and legend elements are needed to say what the question is.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 1.0 (Success Criteria: 12.3 level AA)

Change history

• 6.46 Sep 2022 Removed - WCAG 1.0 guidelines are obsolete.
• 3.5 Dec 2009 Corrected priority.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccWcag1-12.3.3