Hi all, I'm about to go into a series of form redesigns within a section of my company's corporate site. We've mandated that any new forms or form redesigns should comply with WCAG 2.0 AA recommendations.
Most of the 2.0 criterion and techniques seem reasonably clear and I'm not finding it too difficult to find examples of their application, but I can't seem to locate a clear rule around the use of JavaScript to submit a form. Requirement 4 states that "4. Accessibility-Supported Technologies Only: Only accessibility supported technologies are relied upon to satisfy the success criteria. Any information or functionality that is implemented in technologies that are not accessibility supported are also be available via technologies that are accessibility supported." I've read that because most assistive technologies, as well as browsers, now support JavaScript, its appropriate use shouldn't be a barrier to satisfying the requirement. Indeed, the 2.0 guidlines include a number of techniques to achieve compliance based on client side script - see http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20080430/client-side-script.html . And criterion 2.1.1 makes it pretty clear that a form submit would need to be accessible from the keyboard, not just a pointing device - see http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20080430/F54.html But I can't find a clear call on whether a form that uses JavaScript to perform the submit would be acceptable for AA compliance. Can anyone help me on this one? Thanks, Marcus ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
