Suggestions for the 2021 Web Almanac

[tunetheweb]

Place holder for now for people to make some early suggestions for the 2021 Web Almanac

• Who would you like to see write on each topic for the next edition?
• What new subjects should we cover? We added three this year (Capabilities, Jamstack, and Privacy)
• What things could we improve next year?

Feel free to start adding comments below. Normally we don't kick off until later in the year but it always seems like such a rush so think no harm to start thinking about it now.

Also, if you're interested in being involved then please do register your interest so we can reach out to you when it kicks off later in the year.

[axelboc]

I'd be interested to know the proportion of explicit vs. implicit labelling of form elements.

The presence of the for attribute on label elements would be a good first indicator. However, to go further, the query could check:

• whether both explicit and implicit labelling are used together,
• whether the IDs referenced in the for attributes actually exist,
• what kind of labelable form elements are more likely to be explicitly vs implicitly labelled (or not labelled at all even?) - e.g. perhaps checkbox and radio buttons are more likely to be implicitly labelled for styling purposes?

Explicit vs. implicit labelling vs. both

Explicit

<label for="my-id">My label</label>
<input id="my-id">

Implicit

<label>
  My label
  <input>
</label>

Both

<label for="my-id">
  My label
  <input id="my-id">
</label>

[tunetheweb]

Sounds like potentially one for the Markup chapter to consider!

We did do some analysis on label usage in the Accessibility chapter (based on the Lighthouse audits): https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2020/accessibility#form-labels
But that didn't differentiate between the two types.

[rviscomi]

@bazzadp are you ok closing this and moving suggestions into the specific chapter issues or general suggestions to #2167?