Re: Required input. HTML attribute and plain "required" text in label results in duplication for AT. Hide one?

• From: Marc Haunschild (Accessibility Consulting) <marc.haunschild@accessibility.consulting>
• Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:24:39 +0200
• Cc: WAI Interest Group discussion list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <4EDFFD8A-B342-4CA5-BF1F-4635674D783D@accessibility.consulting>

Hi guy,

> Am 30.08.2022 um 23:26 schrieb Guy Hickling <guy.hickling@gmail.com>:
> 
> consider what AT does with the information from the required attribute - all it does is announce "required" to the user when they land on the field.

It also translates the text. 😉

In my opinion it’s easy to understand and ignore the error message of some browsers - it says, that there is an empty required field, what is completely okay with me while exploring a form.
Also in my opinion it’s not a failure, because it’s completely correct that there is an empty required input.as a user I just ignore it, because it’s what I want (staying empty while I’m exploring).

In the other hand programmatically determinable meta information may be very useful for future AT, parsers, automated validation… - so I think - although not the only way to pass this SC - using the required attribute is best practice.

So I personally hide the visual label from AT and use the required attribute for more coding flexibility.

Received on Wednesday, 31 August 2022 06:24:53 UTC