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Re: Accessible Form Validation Errors

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From: Mike Moore
Date: Sep 3, 2004 8:10AM

Darrel,

It looks like your error message indicates that the error will be displayed
in bold red. To make this more accessible include something other than just
color to indicate the error. Since you are already using an asterisk to
indicate a required field, there are a couple of things that you can do:
Add a second asterisk or the word error to the lable for the problem input.
An even more helpful solution, assuming programming support would be to
provide a link directly to the field where there is an error.

I am assuming that you are using label tags arround the inputs.

Mike