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From: Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Feb 12, 2014 4:11PM

Hi Listers,

I am coding Java Server pages to make them Section 508 compliant. I would like the application to behave in the following manner:

The page is a form and after the user fills in the form the submit button is pushed. When I tested this application I found the errors were placed at the top of the page and to cause JAWS to tell them to me I have to go to the top of the page and hit "h" to go to the first heading. The sighted person likes this just fine because it is easy to look at the top of the page.

Susie Stanzel

What I would prefer is for the page to simply tell me the error. For those of you who might not know, a Java Server Page (JSP) is converted into actual html.