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

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From: Fratkin, Mike
Date: Wed, Jan 10 2007 8:55 AM

The point is that a mouse user can go directly to the field in error by
clicking in the field. The suggested error handling implementation
would be to provide a list of the errors at the top of the page (or
other easy keyboard access) and then when the error is selected, the
user would be placed in the error field. Subsequent errors would be
handled in the same manner.

Mike Fratkin
SSA

[Sean wrote:]

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
Accessible Technology Group
Microsoft
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