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Re: Page number in forms

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 1, 2012 7:22AM

Barry

If you can get away with having a form in fewer pages, that is usually
good (at lesat for screen readers), not unless the form is so
extensive that it really requires so many steps to complete (of course
there are visual implications that are important as well, but
definitely don't make a form require more pages than necessary).
I would just have a bread crum type traille. A heading, probably h1,
or using the form ARIA landmark and then a heading immediately
underneat it that says "form x of 4).
At the bottom of each form page you definitely should have "go to
previous" og "go to next" buttons (go to next first, because it is
much more likely that this is what the user will want to do).
You can hide the breadcrum heading off-screen with CSS, if you think
it is there solely for the benefit of screen reader users.
Another very useful way to achieve the same thing is to put the
information in the page title.
Screen readers always read the page title immediately after the page
is loaded, so setting the title = "submition form, page x of 4", will
immediately inform the user of his progress.
Cheers
-B

On 3/31/12, Barry Hill < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If a form is broken up into separate pages for each section, how best might
> the page number, such as page 2 of 4, be given to screen reader users?
>
> Cheers
>
> Barry
>
>
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