Thread Subject: Re: Gaps in Web requirements -error handlingtechniques

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From: Sean Hayes
Date: Wed, Jan 10 2007 8:30 AM

[quote: Mike Fratkin]The WCAG 2.0 provides some very good direction and techniques. However, the part that is missing from WCAG 2.0 is the ability to productively navigate to the error field in question. Pop-up messages are fine but when errors are identified at the top of the screen and when fields are flagged, there needs to be a way for the user to go directly to the field in error to correct the problem.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I would note that "going directly to the field in error" is a facility often not offered to the general user population either, and so might be considered a usability rather than an accessibility issue. Furthermore in a field filling exercise, there is often more than one field in error.

Sean Hayes
Standards and Policy Team
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