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Re: ASP web application validation format

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From: Darrel Austin
Date: Oct 8, 2006 12:20PM

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> I was thinking that the error page might be able to redisplay with
> a new title - errors on form, and error box at the top of the page
> with access keys to the fields with errors using an unorder list,
> no focus on the form so the screen reader would read the page as a
> new page and discover it was an error page. Is something like this
> possible? If yes, could you tell me how to explain it to the
> programmers or send me to a page to find out how. I've exhausted
> the msnd library and wrote them because the Accessible Web
> Application Design Guide only links back to requirements not the
> how or a can't find the document from some other other links.
> Endless loop over and over again.

By default, VS.net won't get you to where you want to go. You have to
work with developers that are willing to go beyond the drag-n-drop
interface methodology.

If we're talking about ASP.net, the built in controls aren't that
bad...obviously, just skip the client-side validation.

The validator controls allow you to enter your own HTML error
message, so you can make that rather semantic. In addition, you can
use a summary validator that will list each of the items that weren't
valid on their own, again, with its own custom HTML.

As for the title, that's a good idea, and a competant developer
should be able to do that.

If they're using ASP, they'll just have to do a bit more hand coding
to get the same results.

-Darrel