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Re: Error prevention on required fields

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From: Maxability
Date: Jul 17, 2019 11:34PM

I agree with Lucy. This is a great example for me to talk about the
difference between user experience and compliance.


Thanks & regards

Rakesh

On 7/11/2019 9:22 PM, John Foliot wrote:
> 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
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
>> dinesh tripathi via WebAIM-Forum
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 10:17 PM
>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Cc: dinesh tripathi < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> 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>>
>> >> at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >>
>>
>>
>> >> >> at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
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>> >> >> >> >>
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