Form Elements In HTML 3.0
This section is based on discussions with
Dave Ragget
and William Perry
.
This document outlines some modifications/additions to the definition of form
elements in HTML. Many of these suggestions are motivated by a desire to be
able to produce multimodal rendererings of WWW documents; such multimodal
renderings will enable people on the go to gain spoken access to the WWW over
the telephone, or while driving.
This section describes the need to
cue the user to a suggested sequence in which form fields should be traversed
and filled out.
The label element allows the HTML markup to capture the association between
input elements and their associated textual label.
This allows the semantics of the dialogue represented by a form to explicitly
captured in the markup.
This section demonstrates a simple form that has been enhanced with semantic
information using the group and label tags.
Element group allows the form designer to group logically related UI
elements, e.g., a group of radio buttons together.
As W3 forms become more complex, there is a need for nested dialogues to
simplify the interface and save screen realestate.
In the case of speech-centric browsers, such increased structure provides the
means to produce succinct renderings of dialogues.
We propose nested form elements to enable nested dialogues.
T. V. Raman
Email: raman@adobe.com
Last modified: Wed Feb 19 11:56:57 1997