[thelist] accessible way to indicate that a form field is required

Julian Rickards julian.rickards at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 12:40:05 CST 2006


http://simplyaccessible.org/examples/required-form-fields

On 16/11/06, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fellow Canadian, Derek Featherstone, talked about this in Australia (his
> podcast and examples are online but give me until tonight to find the link).
> One of the components was to use a graphic of a red asterisk with
> alt="Required" beside the label.
>
> Although < strong> and < em> are read with appropriate emphasis in screen
> readers, it may not be sufficient to alert the user.



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