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From: Peter Krantz
Date: Oct 8, 2006 1:50PM

On 10/7/06, smithj7 < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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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.

I think you are on to the right track. I wrote about how to display
error messages a while ago:

http://standards-schmandards.com/index.php?2005/06/25/21

As for ASP.NET it depends on wihch version you are running. 1.1 has
lousy standards support and you have little use for the built-in
usercontrols that render HTML. If you focus on making sure the
server-side validation works as expected I would suggest you creat
your own user control to display validation errors.

Regards,

Peter