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Re: Error prevention on required fields

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From: John Foliot
Date: Jul 11, 2019 9:52AM

Hi All,

I'll split this even more finely than my colleague Tim: If the sole purpose
of the Save button is to save the current state of the form so a user can
complete it later, then it MAY take advantage of notifying the end user
there are errors, but currently WCAG does not mandate that it MUST do so,
as long as errors are properly noted on Submit.

(MUST, SHOULD, or MAY in the RFC 2119 context
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119)

JF

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:20 AM Tim Harshbarger < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> If the sole purpose of the Save button is to save the current state of the
> form so a user can complete it later, I don't think any of the WCAG success
> criteria related to error prevention or providing error information would
> apply. So that aspect of the UI should be fine as it relates to errors.
> Thanks,
> Tim
> Tim Harshbarger
> Senior Accessibility Consultant
> Deque Systems
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Error prevention on required fields
>
> Hello,
> There is a long form with more than 100 required fields in multiple
> sections of single page. Each section has ‘Save' button. The form might not
> finish in single sitting. When I save each section without entering
> required fields, error message doesn't occurr but error message published
> on the page when hit ‘Save and Submit' button which is OK. Can I expect
> error or warning message to meet the error prevention WCAG requirement when
> I save each section with empty required fields?
> Thank you,Dinesh>
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*​John Foliot* | Principal Accessibility Strategist | W3C AC Representative
Deque Systems - Accessibility for Good
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