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Re: Form validation - on submit or on each required field

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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Jun 26, 2014 12:22PM

It's always best to send focus directly to the errors so the screen reader does not go silent on a bad submit and assume the form is broken.

If you're doing a page reload you could still send focus to them with JavaScript .focus(), make sure the errors are programmatically associated with the invalid inputs also so they hear them when TABing.

If the invalid input has an associated error message you could also use HTML5 autofocus to grab it on page reload.



Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> When the errors are returned at the top of the page are they supposed to be read automatically? I am coding JSP with the use of struts. I work at the United States Department of Agriculture.
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> Susie Stanzel
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