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Re: AT support for required="true"

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From: Angela French
Date: Mar 1, 2017 10:40AM

I didn't know about novalidate either. That is why I love this list because I always learn something new.

Angela French

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 9:28 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] AT support for required="true"

I didn't know that.
Thanks Steve, that'll come in handy!


On 3/1/17, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 1 March 2017 at 09:10, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> The problem (or feature) using required is that, in browsers that
>> support it, the browsers will move focus to the field and display a
>> browser status error message.
>>
>
> You can use the novalidate attribute to override this.
> http://w3c.github.io/html/sec-forms.html#element-attrdef-form-novalida
> te
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>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
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