Re: A scenario

this is a silly thing I se all the time, one would think that the submit
buttons would be at the bottom of the form.  I'd like the browser to
clearly tell me that the button is a submit button.  or a clear or reset
button.  this is often but not always the case.


On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Scott Luebking wrote:

> Hi,
> How about a scenario like this?  A blind student has to register for
> a class via the web.  The registration web page has multiple forms.
> In addition, two different submit buttons are provided towards the beginning
> of each form for different actions.  Also, each form has a link to a help
> web page for that particular form.
> 
> What features would be helpful for the blind student to choose the correct
> form, fill it out and then submit it?
> 
> Which features should be in the browser and which supported by third party
> accessibility software?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> > I'd like to offer the senario in more detail.  In my experience, if you
> > are tabbing through a form and the input requires more than one form, you
> > should be able to go smoothly from one form to annother which is now not
> > often the case.  The biggest problem with the gui as I see it where forms
> > are concerned is finding out exactly what to click on to submit them.  to
> > answere the question, I use my screenreader to look at the lay out of the
> > page and this can change for the screenreader depending on what is
> > hilighted to determine where I need to go and what I need to do to get the
> > form datta entered.
> > some of what I'm attempting to construct here though changes from page to
> > page and different gui browsers but it is essentially up to the user of
> > the screenreader to get as much data as possible by exploration.  this may
> > be mittigated by the adoption of guidelines which support keyboard
> > ability to move from field to field and from form to form.
> > 
> > in our current draft, this may already be incorporated depending on what
> > terms we use to describe the elements for which keyboard support is
> > requested.
> > for instance, is it possible that headers separate forms?  is it possible
> > that a formfield can be enterpretted as a link?  Lynx in its current
> > flavors solves this problem quite nicely by allowing formfields to be
> > numbered. 
> > My last tip here again is that a good search fascility can help with this.
> > I often search for the form after having made myself aware of it through
> > use of my screenreader.  by doing this with a good search tool, we can be
> > placed exactly where we need to be in each instance.
> 

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