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From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Mar 23, 2024 12:22PM

Hi All,

The following article made me recall a discussion here several years ago
that covering up traditional radio buttons and check boxes with custom
designs is a bit of a kludge. Is that still the consensus?

https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/how-to-make-custom-accessible-checkboxes-and-
radio-buttons--cms-32074t#page-content



That has also gotten me to wonder about the relatively new CSS technique of
setting "appearance: none" to create some opportunity for making these
controls more attractive and standardized across platforms. I can no longer
see the screen enough to tell whether these techniques really work. Would
like to hear your thoughts . It seems to me that these techniques could have
a lot of appeal to Web designers and developers.



Jeff Gutsell