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Re: styling usable accessible error messages in form fields

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jul 26, 2011 12:18PM

Hi:
I like the focus to be given to the first problem field and then the page title to have some information about other problems and number of the problems. The one thing that would be really nice but I have never seen it done write is if all but the problem fields be disabled so that the user only tabs to the fields that need fixing


Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Nancy Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:00 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] styling usable accessible error messages in form fields

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