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From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:12PM
Subject: ramification of disabling submit button until required fields are complete
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Hello,
Are there any ramifications to screen readers users of disabling a form submit button until all required fields are complete? My only concern would be that they might overlook a required field and then be confused by not finding the submit. At least leaving the submit functional, an error message can let the user know they've missed a required field.
Thank you,
Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:17PM
Subject: Re: ramification of disabling submit button until required fields are complete
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Hello:
Are you saying the button is not even there until all the fields are
filed in or does the button say disabled I have seen many times with the
field says not available to disable but it's still there and that works
for me
Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
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From: Angela French
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:21PM
Subject: Re: ramification of disabling submit button until required fields are complete
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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:38PM
Subject: Re: ramification of disabling submit button until required fields are complete
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As long as you indicate it's not useable it should still work but the best
thing is to make sure a screen reader user can get to all the form fields
Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces
From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Thu, Apr 04 2013 5:46PM
Subject: Re: ramification of disabling submit button until required fields are complete
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I have seen where not only is the submit disabled, but it is removed from the tab order. I don't know if this is the default for the browser, or if the developer enabled it that way.
It does get a bit confusing if it is also dropped from the tab order.---
JOnathan Cohn