- From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:41:00 -0700
- To: Brooke Dine <dine@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>, w3cwai <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This *usually* works the way you describe. I.e., screen readers can read text in the input fields, status of radio buttons, etc. The best way to handle form errors is a different topic. The coolest thing would be to get a page with only the error fields listed. In other words: "We're sorry, no data was entered in field(s) which is/are required for this form: Zip Code: _____ " This would be Much much more efficient for a screen reader user than having to hunt thru the entire form to try to figure out what went wrong. On the other hand I can think of situations where one might want to read the full form in context. For that situation, maybe the fields with errors could be marked with a unique (text) character or string. Patrick At 10:06 AM 8/15/01, Brooke Dine wrote: >Hello All: > >Can screen readesrs read inputted text that users insert into online >forms? Specifically, once someone has entered information (personal, etc) >into the form, hit "Submit" and had the form returned with a "You haven't >filled out all of the required fields." Would the screen reader read both >the field names and the text within the fields as the person scrolled >through the form to determine what is missing?
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