- From: Henny Swan <hennys@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:32:24 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Hi All, Forgive me as I'm still wading through UAAG and getting up to speed with the spec, as such this may be a silly question with an obvious answer but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Currently HTML5 is working to put in better error handling support in forms so validation can be handled by the HTML and the browser. An example can be found at http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/tests/html5-forms-demo.html . Currently, if you make a mistake the offending form field in question is flagged by a red outline which only goes so far as in aiding accessibility as non-sighted users, colour blind users, people browsing with colours switched off and so on will not get the information. So my question is, how far is the user agent responsible for flagging errors? WCAG 2.0 has a number of Success Criteria that deal with error handling [1] so I'm curious to know where the line is drawn in terms of author responsibility (WCAG) and user agent responsibility (UAAG) when HTML5 is thrown into the mix. Should the browser and HTML5 support provision of accessible warnings or is it down to the page author? Cheers, Henny [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/minimize-error.html -- Henny Swan Web Evangelist Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Group www.opera.com/developer Personal blog: www.iheni.com Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc
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