| Title | Mandatory textarea field without error detection |
|---|---|
| Description | Document containing two mandatroy text input fileds (first name, last name) that are already filled and set to read-only. In addition, it contains one textarea field with mandatory input. If the user submits and no text is entered, the error is not identified and described to the user in text. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Daniela.Ortner@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-08-29 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: textarea
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: The TEXTAREA element .
Feature: label
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification: The LABEL element .
The document is intended to fail, because the input error is not identified and described to the user in text.
For the design of accessible forms it is particularly important to verify appropriateness with assistive technologies like screen readers and ensure proper navigation for users who can access the form by keyboard only. Therefore the expert user is advised to evaluate the form also in this respect. Beyond this it should be mentioned that in order to ensure accessibility of a form presented on a website, it might be necessary to validate the design by the target user group.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 21, column 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#minimize-error-identified.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 22, column 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#minimize-error-identified.
After submission, the error is not specified.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 21, column 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#minimize-error-identified.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 22, column 9: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#minimize-error-identified.
After submission, the error is not specified.