| Title | Red text with CSS and character cue to indicate required form fields |
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| Description | A page with a form that has two fieldsets.
The first fieldset contains a group of radio buttons, and the user is required to make a choice (there is no default).
Instructions above the form explain that required fields have labels in red.
The red text for the first fieldset is created by means of CSS and does includes a character cue ("**") to tell the user that the field is required, so it is possible for users of current screen reader to find out which form fields are required.
The form does not rely on the user's ability to recognize red text.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-30 |
| Status | validated |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
This test case is intended to pass because information about required form fields is conveyed through colour and a character cue. This test is only about indicating required form fields, not about the processing of the form.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 30, column 25) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-without-color.
The user does not need to be able to recognize the colour red in order to know which fields are required.
The code uses the class attribute and a CSS style sheet, and a character cue to indicate required fields.
This test case maps to technique G14: Ensuring that color encoded information is also available in text (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#G14).
The test case passes (line 30, column 25) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#content-presentation-structure-without-color.
The user does not need to be able to recognize the colour red in order to know which fields are required.
The code uses the class attribute and a CSS style sheet, and a character cue to indicate required fields.