- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:15:59 -0500
- To: <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>, <snip@hellbusch.de>, <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
in that case, onclick would be a joy and many other things would be solved. From my years of use on the web and with forms in particular, I find the little examples spread through out the form to be quite helpful. This can even be suplemented with a little tutorial on how to fill out the form that people can look at before they fill out the form as many times as they wish. you can put the tutorial into several formats one of them being flash so that the graphical user can take full advantage of it. In some ways, this is an intrieguing question as it brings up a whole host of other questions that we have discussed in some form or another on this list before. This is a situation which is going to cause problems or dissatisfaction for some no matter what you do so what can be done to minimize access barriers? The answer is that if a help is required, treat it like help. On this page, there is a form. to recieve instructions on filling in this form, go to the help page and then return to fill in the form. the form can link to the help page and vice versa and have little examples through it so that the swift don't have to slow down too much. ----- Original Message ----- From: <DPawson@rnib.org.uk> To: <snip@hellbusch.de>; <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:43 AM Subject: RE: forms problem > > 3. A long version of the form in which fields are interleaved with > > documentation. > > That is something which causes (sometimes great) difficulties for the > partially sighted. But it is in tendancy a lot of text, I should think > making some other people impatient ... it is in a way in > conflict with WAI's "clear navigation". What's that saying about 'some of the people some of the time'. OK which is better / worse. Confused by navigational techniques, or annoyed by verbose help only needed by some people? My perspective would be to annoy the swift folk (as little as possible). Regards DaveP - NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email's content. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the email and any attachments from your system. RNIB has made strenuous efforts to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any viruses which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RNIB. RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk
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