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From: Miller, Lisa F. (LMS)
Date: Mon, Feb 24 2003 6:26AM
Subject: RE: JAWS and online forms question
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Andrew,
The link you included is very similar to the page we are building:
http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy/web.html. We are reproducing an official
government form on the web, and must retain all the information available on
the original form, so we do not have the option to condense any of the text
- it is required to look as much like the paper form as possible. The site
is required to be 508 compliant, which has been defined by the client as
being JAWS complient.
We would like to make the site as 'usable' as possible, but finding 508
compliant examples which do more than a 'Contact Me' page has been
difficult. If anyone could point me to any good sites, especially in
regards to complex forms, it would be most appreciated. I have passed the
suggestions from this forum on to the programmer, and hope to get some
feedback from him today or tomorrow.
Thanks for your help,
Lisa
>
From: Mark Rew
Date: Mon, Feb 24 2003 6:36AM
Subject: Re: JAWS and online forms question
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Lisa,
Take a look at the following site:
http://www.gsa.gov/forms
Almost all of these forms should have been tested with Jaws. The hard part
for a Jaws user is the form to download the special software.
Mark
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From: "Miller, Lisa F. (LMS)" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: JAWS and online forms question
> Andrew,
>
> The link you included is very similar to the page we are building:
> http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy/web.html. We are reproducing an official
> government form on the web, and must retain all the information available on
> the original form, so we do not have the option to condense any of the text
> - it is required to look as much like the paper form as possible. The site
> is required to be 508 compliant, which has been defined by the client as
> being JAWS complient.
>
> We would like to make the site as 'usable' as possible, but finding 508
> compliant examples which do more than a 'Contact Me' page has been
> difficult. If anyone could point me to any good sites, especially in
> regards to complex forms, it would be most appreciated. I have passed the
> suggestions from this forum on to the programmer, and hope to get some
> feedback from him today or tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Lisa
>
> >
From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mon, Feb 24 2003 6:51AM
Subject: Re: JAWS and online forms question
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Lisa,
In that case, you might want to consider using the title attribute on the
<input> tags to provide clear labels for the fields.
Some fields (name, email address, organization, please type your message
here) can easily use the text available in a <label> tag.
Other fields, such as "relationship" need more information and this could be
provided in the title -- <input title="relationship to organization">.
Similarly, "purpose for message", "topic of message", "message subject"
could be used for other fields. (why not use the topic and purpose as the
message subject?)
The field that I have the most difficulty with is "capacity". I can't
figure out how it is different from relationship. In any case, the label
"capacity" seems insufficient. Maybe the label should be "In what capacity
are you writing?" or "Who I am".
AWK
On 2/24/03 8:16 AM, "Miller, Lisa F. (LMS)" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> The link you included is very similar to the page we are building:
> http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy/web.html. We are reproducing an official
> government form on the web, and must retain all the information available on
> the original form, so we do not have the option to condense any of the text
> - it is required to look as much like the paper form as possible. The site
> is required to be 508 compliant, which has been defined by the client as
> being JAWS complient.
>
> We would like to make the site as 'usable' as possible, but finding 508
> compliant examples which do more than a 'Contact Me' page has been
> difficult. If anyone could point me to any good sites, especially in
> regards to complex forms, it would be most appreciated. I have passed the
> suggestions from this forum on to the programmer, and hope to get some
> feedback from him today or tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Lisa
>
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