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Re: Forms mode and error messages

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Aug 17, 2011 6:51AM

Thank you for your ideas. I was wondering if WAI-ARIA would help.

I have to look at WAI-ARIA roles more.. Is there a good tutorial that
is basic and to the point? I haven't found a good one easy to follow
for those of us working under stress yet.

Thanks Nancy

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Jeevan Reddy
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello Nancy,
>   you are doing right way!
> Generally screen reader users used to switch between focus mode& focus mode
> to rectify the input errors.
> if the input errors are in descriptive text format, then it won't be any
> violation of any accessibility guidelines.
>   To make it more usable to AT users, you can use ARIA alerts by the
> following way.
> use ARIA alert role for each invalid field.
> enable alert when the user get focus to teh corresponding invalid field
> usingJ SF.
> Make the Error descriptive.
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Nancy Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> I have a question regarding forms mode and inline error messages.   (I
>> am using NVDA)
>>
>> We are using JSF framework for our form...  The engineer set up the
>> <inputs using a grid panel which produces a table.  Currently the
>> error messages are called from the server into a new table cell.
>>
>> There is no ajax...
>>
>> First test:   I submitted the form so the form would produce all the
>> default error messages.. Turned on NVDA and listened without trying to
>> interact...   All the error messages were readable and aligned
>> themselves with the correct control. No problem.
>>
>> Second test:   Tried to add incorrect data to the form so to force an
>> error message...  In this case I had to tab from control to control...
>> the error message was not readable.   Did not actually do anything to
>> turn on "forms" mode.
>>
>> I am certainly not an expert with screen readers.  Am I doing
>> something incorrect? Is it to do with tabbing from input to input?
>> What should I be doing so I can give an accurate report.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nancy Johnson
>>