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From: John S. Britsios
Date: Apr 12, 2006 8:20PM

Dear co-members,

We launched our redesign on the 20th of March, and we are still working
on optimizing our site accessibility.
Therefore we need your opinion about the following issue:

The guideline 31 "Do not exclude labels form fields" for Accessible and
Usable Web Sites found here
http://redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
mentions that "When filling out a field makes the page refresh, the
software starts reading from the top as if it were a new a page.... That
is a time saver
for sighted users, but is made the page refresh so that the screen
reader started over at the top of the page".

Though we came up with the following solution:

We added a title to the "Submit" button "Page will reload!", and using a
server-side solution, we managed that when the user clicks there, the
page reloads, and the
user will be go back to the same place he/she have been, and he/she can
view or hear the success or error message.

What is your opinion about that solution? Feel free to test that on our
web site here: http://www.webnauts.net (Training Academy or Newsletter).
Also, if this is an appropriate solution, would it be necessary to add a
notice before the "Submit" button, that the page will reload? Or add an
alt tag
on the button?

Thanks in advance for your kind responses.

Best,

John

John S. Britsios
Web Architect & Marketing Consultant

Webnauts Net
Koblenzer Str. 37A
D-33613 Bielefeld

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