Rich,
Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Grouping helps accessibility. Radio buttons are a form of single
> selection. By encompassing them in a group you know they are part of the
> "select." This is not new to accessibility. In fact there is an
> accessibility API role called radiogroup.
> Now for the name. If there is a visible name assigned to the group ...
> think of it as a label we will need to know that. ODF makes use of
> "names" in drawing objects. That is typically a unique name which I did
> not want to confuse with the "label" for the radio group.
>
> So, the name or label I am referring to would be "Primitives" below. A
> screen reader user would tab to the first focused radio button and say
> "Primitives: radio button 4xLine"
>
> Make sense?
In the example you have provided, the box arround the radio buttons
would be an additional control and not drawn automatically. Actually,
the box could not be drawn automatically, because the radio buttons may
be positioned individually and may even appear somewhere within the text
flow.
The control that draws this frame is a