Thanks for the info. The ssn search that the federal user has in the current application is that after the 9th digit is typed in; a search is automatically done to retrieve items such as person's name. I was hoping could do something similar in the web application we will be creating.
Jeff Cooper On 6/21/05, Viktor Szathmary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/05, Jeff Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The company I work for is developing an application for a federal > > client and I would like to use some of the components from the t-deli > > site. The one in question is the example(xtile) they have where you > > type in a textbox and it starts doing the search on the keypresses. > > The client wants this ability when searching for ssn's. My boss seems > > to think this won't pass 508 compliance; was just wondering if anyone > > knows if this would be the case. Will we run across other issues with > > making the site more interactive for the user? > > XTile is a not part of the Tacos component library. > > Generally speaking, AJAX approaches will make it harder to achieve > accessibility (ie. I have no idea how screenreaders handle dynamic DOM > replacements, probably not very well). On the other hand, as long as > you use it in a conservative fashion where the functionality works > fine with javascript disabled, you can most likely make things degrade > in a usable way. The Tacos library in particular works like this > (http://tacos.sf.net/). You should try some tests with some relevant > products... > > A related note: to me auto-completion on social-security number > searches sounds like a profoundly bad idea, as far as privacy is > concerned. Not sure what federal regulations require, but one would > hope that the requirements are at least as stringent as credit card > security in ecommerce apps (which I'm familiar with, and which even > with all the restrictions remains unsecure in many ways :). You > definitely should not be able to just type in 12* to get all numbers > starting with that :) > > regards, > viktor > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
