Forms should consistently have errors above the top-level heading
Bug #1262483 reported by
Jono M
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mahara |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Jono M |
Bug Description
If you submit a form with validation errors, most of the time a message comes up above the <h1> on that page warning you that there are errors. However a few pages do not have this feature and only have error messages beside the invalid inputs.
Consistency is important to users of screen readers, who may assume that a form has submitted correctly if the error message does not appear where they expect.
Affected pages
- Login
- Profile
- New journal
- New plan
- New task
- Create page
- Create collection
- Create/Edit group
- New forum
- New topic
- Add user
- Add users/groups by CSV
- Add institution
- Allowed iframe sources
Affects latest master
(WCAG Level A)
tags: | added: wcag |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Jono Mingard (mingard) |
description: | updated |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in mahara: | |
milestone: | none → 1.9.0 |
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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For sighted people it can be useful to display the message not at the top of the screen because it could be overlooked very easily. Robert implemented bug #1248318 recently which allows the placement of a warning message directly in / under a pieform element so that it's easier to see where the issue is. This needs to be taken into consideration. ;-)