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Form labels provide a mechanism by which assistive technologies can associate a form field with the associated on-screen text question. All form fields, including text entry, radio buttons, checkboxes, and drop-down menus, were reviewed and modified as needed to programmatically associate the form field with its corresponding on-screen text question. As a result, when using assistive technology and focus is set to a form field, the appropriate text question will be communicated back to the applicant.
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English Hover Help Text
Both the OpenCCC and CCCApply platforms were designed to include Hover Help on various form fields to assist potential students in creating a new account or completing the college application process in English and in , as well as to provide a language translation of the form field instructions in Spanish. A challenge with the Hover Help text was that it would only respond to the use of a mouse and was not supported reliably by assistive technologies. Therefore, Hover Help information was removed from form fields on which it was not relevant and will now be displayed for both mouse and keyboard users. The Hover Help implementation will now function with assistive technologies and be read in addition to any form field labels.in order to comply with screenreaders, keyboard users and other assistive technologies:
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