Re: Example of using required, invalid and alert

Becky all examples work for me.  I see three levels of annoyance. The 
one were you trapped me in the text field until a valid entry was made 
was definitely annoying. The others were fine but I think it depends on 
circumstance.  If I was using a screen reader and want to explore things 
via tab, the first example would also annoy me I think.  Do you think 
that is a common use case?  To explore a form via tab?

BTW if we go with a tooltip alert approach we discussed off-list (sorry 
all) we are going to have similar questions I think.

cheers,
David

Becky Gibson wrote:
> I have updated my examples a bit and gotten the questions  answered. 
>
>   
>> Do we expect that there can be more than one state - both required and 
>> invalid?  Should I remove the required field when I set the invalid role? 
>>     
>
>
> Since required and invalid are properties, both can be set on the same 
> element. 
>
> I also updated the example  to catch the onblur event when a field is 
> losing focus and forcing focus back to that field when it is invalid. This 
> can be quite annoying so I'm looking for feedback on how folks feel about 
> that. 
>
> I've added an example where I monitor the onkeydown event and catch the 
> tab key and enter key and check for errors.  When the tab key is pressed 
> and there is an error, I make the error message visible and force focus 
> back into the field.  If the user presses tab a second time, I allow focus 
> to move to the next control. The error message is still displayed but at 
> least the user is not "trapped" in the field until the error is fixed. 
> Does this seem like a worthwhile convention to encourage? 
>
> I've added a bit more text for each of the three examples to explain the 
> behavior of each.
>
>
>
> This is an XHTML file with a content-type of application/xhtml+xml so it 
> can only be opened properly  in Firefox or Opera, although I did not test 
> in Opera.
>
> Becky Gibson
> Web Accessibility Architect
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Received on Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:05:47 UTC