Adding alt attribute or LABEL to checkbox in gridview

[chicdog]

The application that i'm working on requires 508 compliance and I'm recieving a failure on the checkboxes in the gridview. Is there a way to add an alt attribute or LABEL to a checkbox control in a gridview that's dymanically created?

 

[adamroof]

1. What language? c#, vb?
2. can you not use
dynCheckBox.Attributes["title"] = "This Box Does This";
when you create the checkbox?

i dont think there is a valid alt attribute for a checkbox.

if you cant for some reason add the attribute like above, can you post the code for when you create the checkbox?

 

[mbiro]

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/aspnet_answers/NETFrameworkASPNETwebcontrols/Mar2006/post26322789.asp

 

[ca8msm]

As Adam has already said, there isn't an alt attribute for a checkbox.

A standard checkbox in ASP.NET e.g.

<asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server"/>

will render as:

<input id="CheckBox1" type="checkbox" name="CheckBox1" />

If you add the Text property e.g.

<asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server" Text="Test" />

then it will render a label for that checkbox e.g

<input id="CheckBox1" type="checkbox" name="CheckBox1" /><label for="CheckBox1">Test</label>

That should be enough for a screen reader to know what the checkbox is.


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