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From: Kerry Webb
Date: Sep 22, 2004 11:44PM


I've just joined the list, and (of course) I have a question.

There are two main ways of entering credit card numbers on a Web page
- accepting all 16 (or 15 in some cases) in one string, or having
four boxes each accepting four digits (except perhaps the last one
....)

The four box option can either advance the cursor to the next box
after the fourth digit is entered, or can halt and have the user tab
or click on the next box.

My question is, does any of these methods have particular benefits,
as far as accessibility is concerned?

I prefer the four box option with the auto-tabbing, but it may be
that users with a disability or with older browsers or browsers with
no javascript enabled, may be disadvantaged.

Thanks

Kerry

====Kerry Webb
Canberra, Australia

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