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Re: ASP web application validation format

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From: smithj7
Date: Oct 9, 2006 5:30AM

I am so glad that it is possible on the server side.
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From: "Darrel Austin" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ASP web application validation format


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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.
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> 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.
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> If we're talking about ASP.net, the built in controls aren't that
> bad...obviously, just skip the client-side validation.
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> 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.
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> As for the title, that's a good idea, and a competant developer
> should be able to do that.
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> If they're using ASP, they'll just have to do a bit more hand coding
> to get the same results.
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> -Darrel
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