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Re: Form Errors w/ ARIA Alert Help

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Oct 18, 2011 5:39AM

Hi vincent,
I think, you are just hiding some error definitions and showing the
hidden information once the user submit the form..This is not feasible
solution!
you can use Tooltip to describe the error fields, or associate the error
descriptions with the corresponding fields using ARIA-described by property.
this will meet your business requirement..


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Vincent Young < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> I'm hoping I can get some help here. I'm trying to trigger an ARIA alert
> on
> form errors w/ the business requirement that the first errored input needs
> to get focus. Problem is, errors come back after form submission (i.e. no
> JS error handling). The only way I was able to get this to work cross
> browser is the ugly implementation below:
>
> http://www.webhipster.com/testing/accessibility/alert/
>
> Does anyone know of a better way to do this? I really hate showing then
> hiding the errors then sticking a random element inside all after a
> settimeout.
>
> Thanks all!
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