I'll confess my ignorance on this issue, but how do screen readers handle DHTML type injection of content into the DOM?
Without using alerts, you could add the warning into the actual document. But how does a screen reader know the document has changed? L. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Anthony Ziebell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey group, > > Does anyone have any ideas on standards based form validation, which is > non-obtrusive, however remains accessible? > > Reason I ask, is that some form validations inject an element say under a > form input, explaining the error. Now, without any alerts, how would a blind > person / screen reader pick up the fact that the element is now there and > read out this error? > > Has anyone been able to cater for this requirement? > > Thanks, > Anthony. > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
