[Bb-trac] [bbPress] #948: Accessibility improvements for error messages in forms

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#948: Accessibility improvements for error messages in forms
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 Reporter:  mdawaffe        |       Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  1.0-beta & XML-RPC
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  1.0-beta (trunk)  
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  accessibility     
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 The way we output error messages in forms can be improved to offer greater
 accessibility.

 Right now, error messages are printed out below the form input.  When
 using a screen reader, you don't hear the error until after the input
 label (the row header) and the input.

 Attached outputs the error as part of the label (the row header) so that a
 screen reader will speak the error message along with the label and header
 before reading the input form.  This gives the user more context by
 strengthening the association between the error message and the relevant
 form field.

 The attached patch uses CSS to put the error in a reasonable place on the
 screen.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/948>
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