At the end of next month (February 2013), W3C will once again have a booth at Mobile World Congress to share with the congress participants news from all the mobile-relevant work happening in W3C, and our views on the importance of the Web as platform that connects devices together.
To illustrate this, we are working on a demonstration that illustrates the ability of the Web on various connected devices: laptop, tablet, phone and TV.
I’ve spent a fair amount of my spare time over the past few months writing a book (in French) on mobile Web design and development, with my colleague François Daoust.
The book is now finally available, under the title Relever le défi du Web mobile (taking up the mobile Web challenge) — it can be ordered for instance from Amazon.fr.
We’ve also built a Web site to accompany the book, lewebmobile.fr, which allows our readers to follow the various links given in the book, copy the code samples, and get corrections and updates as we produce them.
I inquired earlier today if there was a way to give focus to an HTML form field through a simple link.
The reason of my inquiry was that WCAG 2.0 recommends to make it possible for the user [to] easily navigate to [detected form submission errors] to fix the problem
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But in practice, with the following HTML form:
<p><label for='email' id='emaillabel'>Email:</label>
<input type='text' id='email' name='email'></p>neither a link to #email nor to #emaillabel will give focus to the input field.
For instance, it would be useful to be able to markup a possible error message above that form as follows: