[whatwg] Form element invalid message
    Shiv Kumar 
    skumar at exposureroom.com
       
    Wed Sep 22 20:10:31 PDT 2010
    
    
  
>I actually think that the customerrormessage attribute that has been
>suggested is a decent solution too.
So it looks like Jonas and Mounir concur. That's great!
>All you'd need to do
>is install an event handler for the "invalid" event, and in that
>handler do something like element.setAttribute("customerrormessage",
>myMessage);
So on a scale of usefulness if the spec is a 1, what I suggested made it a 5
and this just made it 8.
And one can still make highly useable forms with very decent validation
without going against Section 508.
Shiv
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