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3.3.3 If an input error is automatically detected and suggestions for correction are known, then the suggestions are provided to the user, unless it would jeopardize the security or purpose of the content. (Level AA)Understanding Success Criterion 3.3.3
Note: Other techniques may also be sufficient if they meet the success criterion.
G85: Providing a text description when user input falls outside the required format or values
SCR18: Providing client-side validation and alert (Scripting)
SCR32: Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the DOM (Scripting)
FLASH12: Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the accessible description (Flash)
PDF22: Indicating when user input falls outside the required format or values in PDF forms (PDF)
SCR18: Providing client-side validation and alert (Scripting)
SCR32: Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the DOM (Scripting)
FLASH12: Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the accessible description (Flash)
PDF22: Indicating when user input falls outside the required format or values in PDF forms (PDF)
G139: Creating a mechanism that allows users to jump to errors
Making error messages easy to understand and distinguishable from other text in the Web page (future link)
Validating form submissions on the server (future link)
When mandatory information has not been provided, including descriptions or examples of correct information in addition to identifying the field as mandatory (future link)
Repeating and emphasizing suggestions for correcting each input error in the context of its form field (future link)
Providing a way for the user to skip from each item in a list of suggestions to its corresponding form field (future link)
Providing additional contextual help for the form field requiring change (future link)
Accepting input data in a variety of formats (future link)
G199: Providing success feedback when data is submitted successfully
Providing a text description that contains information about the number of input errors, suggestions for corrections to each item, and instructions on how to proceed (future link)
Providing a text description that contains suggestions for correction as the first item (or one of the first items) of content, or emphasizing this information in the content (future link)
Displaying errors and suggestions in the context of the original form (for example, re-displaying a form where input errors and suggestions for correction are highlighted and displayed in the context of the original form) (future link)
Providing "correct examples" for data and data formats as initial text in mandatory form fields (future link)
Providing links to suggested correction text "close to" form fields, or providing the suggested correction text itself directly on the Web page "next to" form fields (future link)
SCR18: Providing client-side validation and alert (Scripting)
Providing client-side validation and adding error text via the DOM (future link)
Calling a function from the submit action of a form to perform client side validation (future link)