luckster99
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Thanks for responding. I’ll give it a try!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Simple Image Sizes] Can't make it workI’ve uninstalled a suspect plugin and it works now as expected
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WCAG 2.0 form fields for Gravity Forms] Validation error notification?This is really cool. I”ll be checking it out soon. I had written to gravity forms developers re: this and they simply responded that they don’t guarantee accessibility. didn’t seem that interested but if you do all the work for them….I do think this issue is gaining traction and would be a good selling point.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WCAG 2.0 form fields for Gravity Forms] Validation error notification?Cool – we do still have Gravity Forms installed.
Did you update your plugin or are you saying that Gravity Forms updated and had improved validation errors??
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Easy Google Fonts] Over https:// google fonts blockedok, thanks. We’ll follow up on our side.
In case anyone is interested, I’m in conversation with the developer of the Gravity Forms WCAG 2.0 Form Fields plugin re: this issue.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WCAG 2.0 form fields for Gravity Forms] Validation error notification?Thanks for your response!
What my tester wrote was:
“GravityForms do utilize labels, but when submitted with missing input, no feedback is provided that is detectable by a screen reader user. There is no alert spoken and the focus is not moved to an intelligent location on the screen, such as the location of the first error. “
He said he could hear the validation error text IF he moved backwards through the form after submitting but who would do this unless they knew there was a problem. There was no alert that told him he missed a required field or had other problem. He thought the form was successfully submitted. We almost missed this problem – we only realized it when he mentioned a form he submitted and I said I never got it.
What you write sounds like the right answer. I’m not very familiar with the technical solutions. The other thing that jumped out at me from WebAIM was: “Regardless of the mechanism used to identify and recover from form errors, aria-invalid=”true” should generally be set on each invalid form control. This attribute causes screen readers to identify the control as being “invalid” or in need of attention.”
Thank you so much for thinking about accessibility for forms. We were struck as to how many of them fail to account for accessibility in any meaningful way. Unlike some accessibility problems that might be just an annoyance for a screen reader user, this problem was a deal breaker for us. I could just see a student applying for a position in a lab, trying to submit a homework assignment, or make an appointment and never knowing that it wasn’t even submitted. The ramifications could be pretty terrible.
Contact Form 7 can do a lot but it requires the form creator to know how to manually add some html….our users would never in a million years do this consistently. If we could get Gravity forms up and running, it would be fantastic.
Let me know if you need any other information. My tester is on retainer and I could get a little of his time perhaps. However, he is not a programmer and doesn’t typically tell us how to fix our problems….just that we have them.
adowdle – Thanks! I’ve written the developers to see if it resolves the validation alert issue – although I’m thinking from the description that it probably doesn’t.
Joe, you were totally right on about Contact Form 7 but we run multisite with faculty and grad student users and there was no way we could teach them to do it correctly….we need a solution that can be done on a global level.
The validation error alert thing seems so totally obvious. I don’t understand why they don’t build it in to every form builder than contains required fields or other validations that cause errors.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] field labels?Thanks. I did know that – we’re trying to find a form builder that our faculty can use without help and they simply won’t add the labels consistently, if at all. Thanks for your quick response!
resolving! thanks.
You’re correct, it’s still a problem in the text widget.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Visual Editor displaying content white so can't see itYes, we did resolve it and I’m trying to remember….I think it was (what else) a plugin issue with 4.0. Black Studio Tiny MCE Visual Editor widget was causing the problem. I should have resolved this thread
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Customizer pane is blank – fresh install of WordPressThis happened to me too. All themes. Multisite subdomain install.
Development system was not affected and it is also upgraded to 4.0 although the customizer does load slowly and often gives a little error message at first – “save failed….” but the message doesn’t last long enough to read it in full.
hey….so…..evidently you have fixed something behind the scenes. not sure how you do that. 🙂
I met with the app admin to research it and it worked every time from all 4 servers.
We’re looking into the possibility that our email server or google was putting them into a central spam repository. or that I had a bad dream.
So…..Errrrdsf;ljsdafsdf
I don’t see mention of 3.9.4 WP anywhere…. ?