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Hi Everyone--

Bill Havens sent me a question about form validation and the MSU web 
accessibility policy that I wanted to share because it was a good 
one--and contains a helpful link to WebAIM. He said it was okay to share.

Thanks, Bill!

Mike

Hi Bill--

The webaim page does a great job describing how to deal with form 
validation, with one exception: It is not necessary for validation to 
work with JavaScript turned off under the MSU web policy.

Client-side validation will be easier for persons with disabilities 
because errors can be detected, announced and repaired immediately.  

Best regards,

Mike

On Jun 16, 2009, at 10:26 AM, "Havens, Bill" <<a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0906%26L%3DWEBDEVCAFE%26E%3D8bit%26P%3D8297%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8" >[log in to unmask]</a> 
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> Mike,
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> We are in the process of getting our web forms compliant with the 
> accessibility initiative in the Office of Financial Aid here at MSU.   
> Currently I have a major hurdle to climb when it comes to making our 
> forms accessible when doing “Form Validation”.
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> Can you tell me what the best practice is for doing this?  I’ve found 
> a good article on this at: 
> http://webaim.org/techniques/formvalidation/ but I want to be sure 
> that this approach is the best one, before we begin changing the way 
> we have done form validation.   In the past, we have used VBscript and 
> JavaScript to do form validation.
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> Any help or information would be very appreciated.
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> Thank you,
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> *Bill Havens*
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> Systems Analyst
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> Michigan State University
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> Office of Financial Aid
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> 517.353.8485
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