- From: Christophe Strobbe (on behalf of BenToWeb) <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:15:08 +0100
- To: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
Hi, Test case sc2.5.1_l1_025 in the second version of the BenToWeb test suite [1] (for the April 2006 working draft) tried to implement this technique but failed. The test file contains two mandatory text input fields (first name, last name) that are already filled and set to read-only. In addition, it contains one text input field for entering the date of birth with mandatory input. If the user submits and no date is entered or the date is invalid, the error is identified and described to the user in text below the form (JavaScript adds text to the DOM). However, screenreader users may not notice the text below the form because the focus remains on the submit button after "submission" (JavaScript catches the missing input, so nothing is submitted to the server); when tabbing off the submit button, the focus moves to the URL bar instead of to the message below the form. We tried different variations on this technique, one of which included a change to the text of the submit button to draw attention to the error message, but that did not solve the focus problem. [1] http://www.bentoweb.org/ts/XHTML1_TestSuite2/metadata/sc2.5.1_l1_025 Best regards, Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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