- From: David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:07:36 -0400
- To: Derek Featherstone <feather@wats.ca>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
This has only partly to do with braille embossing. I am interested in the max length attribute though. I wonder if it is supported everywhere or almost everywhere? -- Jonnie Apple Seed With His: Hands-On Technolog(eye)s On Jul 12, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Derek Featherstone wrote: David Poehlman wrote: > There are still many people out there including myself who have no > idea how many chars a field can take unless there is place holder > info in the form. > This is very interesting, indeed. Like the others, I would argue that there is a problem with the software that is doing the translation of the form to braille. This seems to me to be a perfect case where the maxlength attribute on the form should be used, and in fact seen as informative by the software. A text input that takes a two-letter state abbreviation should be have a maxlength of 2 for all users. If the braille software isn't using that, perhaps it should be? I can't think of any cases (off the top of my head) where using the maxlength attribute in this manner would be a problem... Cheers, Derek.
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