{"id":1920,"date":"2013-07-17T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:50:10","slug":"error-prevention-more-web-tip-18-71713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"Error Prevention &#038; More, Web Tip #18, 7\/17\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Error Prevention, Validation, and Recovery<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Presentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/formvalidation\/\">Form error prevention, validation, and recovery techniques<\/a> can have a significant impact on site usability and accessibility. Forms should be easy to understand, complete, and submit. If there are problems with a form submission (e.g., the user did not complete a required form field), you should:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Alert the user to the presence\u00a0of the error in an apparent and accessible manner<\/li>\n<li>Allow the user to easily access\u00a0the form elements that need to be modified<\/li>\n<li>Allow resubmission and\u00a0revalidation of the form<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1920\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Error Prevention, Validation, and Recovery Difficulty: Beginner Category: Content Presentation Form error prevention, validation, and recovery techniques can have a significant impact on site usability and accessibility. Forms should be easy to understand, complete, and submit. If there are problems with a form submission (e.g., the user did not complete a required form field), you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}