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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Jul 26, 2011 12:03PM

Hi,

I apologize if this is a repeat topic, but I have been asked to design
some error messages for pages that have between 10 and 20 inputs.

They need to be 508... At this point I don't know the back-end
technology, but have looked at webaim.org/contact where the error
messages display in a group before the inputs, but also Google's where
they display just below... I've also seen them just to the right of
the input...

How important to the screen reader user to group them at the top as
webaim.org/contact page does?

Thanks in advance,

Nancy Johnson