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From: Greg Kraus
Date: Aug 5, 2014 3:57PM

This seems like a silly question, but it got me to thinking. Why don't
login pages indicate that the user name and password fields are
required? I went to several sites that would probably say they are
quite accessible, and none of them with login functionality indicated
that the fields were required.

I don't read anything in WCAG 2 that would allow for login pages as an
exclusion, unless I'm missing something. Is it just that we all know
by now that the fields will be required? Is it a bad habit that we've
all gotten into?

Just curious.

Greg
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Greg Kraus
University IT Accessibility Coordinator
NC State University
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