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RE: e-mail addresses and proper forms labelling of their constituent parts

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From: Mary Utt
Date: Sep 15, 2003 1:33PM


Lori,

They are just going to say, "use one text field and error-check."

The problem in our case is that we have several long-standing
(as in before-my-time) admin forms that use the [ ]@[ ] format.

So I opted to go with that flow rather than retrofit existing
(non-templated) forms. Pros: consistency, self-documenting, less
error prone. Cons: 2 fields rather than 1, accessibility may be
a problem. To which I can argue, 1) admins are used to hard lives and
don't have to do this very often and 2) we never committed to making
the admin forms accessible.

So those were my reasons for doing that form that way.

Mary

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