New Zealand Government Web Standards

22.2 Descriptive labels tagged

New standards released

The New Zealand Web Standards 2.0 were released in March 2009 and replace the previous version, the New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0 (below).  See Meeting the standards for more information.

The Standard

22.2 Descriptive labels must be tagged as <label>.

Guide to this standard

Every descriptive label must be tagged as <label> and associated with the name of the field.

Rationale for this standard

Enhances site accessibility by enabling a means for assistive technologies to associate without ambiguity to the corresponding field.