Sorry, I was a bit vague. I'm saying do all validation server-side. If you're looking for a quick and dirty solution to the element injection issues when screen readers are being used, you can try setting focus back to the new element's parent, though shifting focus is a practice often frowned upon.
On 1/20/09, Anthony Ziebell <anth...@fatpublisher.com.au> wrote: > Server side validation is of course a must... however, if the visually > impaired visitor has JavaScript turned on and these error elements are > created, they won't exactly get to the server side validation now, will > they? ARIA looks good, looking forward to it getting out of draft status. > > Thanks, > Anthony. > > > james.duc...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hmm, I made a typo. Coffee time. >> >> On 1/20/09, james.duc...@gmail.com <james.duc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> after all it's impossible to tell those users using an accessibility aid >>>> like a screen reader >>>> from those who do not, and hey, the growing number of users who >>>> purposefully disable >>>> JavaScript won't see the glitzy JavaScript injected errors anyway. >>>> >>> >>> Agreed, and any decent validation is going to be done server-side >>> validation anyway, so you're going to have to (or at least you should) >>> implement the server-side responses in any case. >>> >>> - James >>> >>> -- >>> James Ducker >>> Web Developer >>> http://www.studioj.net.au >>> >>> >> >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* -- James Ducker Web Developer http://www.studioj.net.au ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
