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Re: JAWS and online forms question

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From: Mark Rew
Date: Feb 24, 2003 6:36AM

Lisa,

Take a look at the following site:
http://www.gsa.gov/forms

Almost all of these forms should have been tested with Jaws. The hard part
for a Jaws user is the form to download the special software.

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Lisa F. (LMS)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: JAWS and online forms question


> Andrew,
>
> The link you included is very similar to the page we are building:
> http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy/web.html. We are reproducing an official
> government form on the web, and must retain all the information available on
> the original form, so we do not have the option to condense any of the text
> - it is required to look as much like the paper form as possible. The site
> is required to be 508 compliant, which has been defined by the client as
> being JAWS complient.
>
> We would like to make the site as 'usable' as possible, but finding 508
> compliant examples which do more than a 'Contact Me' page has been
> difficult. If anyone could point me to any good sites, especially in
> regards to complex forms, it would be most appreciated. I have passed the
> suggestions from this forum on to the programmer, and hope to get some
> feedback from him today or tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Lisa
>
> >