Re: [orca-list] Figuring out what is wrong when filling a web form

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Shérab.

If the site has marked a field as being in error using the user agent's
validation or by using aria-invalid, Orca will present that condition
when the field gets focus. Ideally, Orca would also present the error as
soon as you leave a field where a mistake was just made, but we need a
state-change event for that. I just filed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376138.

--joanie

On 06/24/2017 04:27 PM, Shérab wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sometimes, it happens to me that, when I want to validate a form I have
> just filled, it does not work because a field has been filled in an
> unexpected way. In such situations, most of the time I find myself in
> trouble understanding what it is exactly that I have done in a way that
> displeases the web site.
>
> So, two quesitons, here:
>
> 1. How standard is the way used by web sites to tell users they have
> done something wrong? I guess it is not fully standard but perhaps it is
> at least a little bit?
>
> 2. When the site underlines the wrong field or displays it in red for
> instance, would there be a way to know about that through Orca?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shérab.
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