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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 included 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, 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, in order to comply with screenreaders, keyboard users and other assistive technologies:  
 

1) We changed the way on-screen text label is programmatically linked to its respective form field, so the English Hover Help content was redundant and no longer necessary. Thus, English Hover Help

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text was removed from form fields

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in which it

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is no longer relevant, specifically, Yes/No radio buttons, checkboxes, and dropdown menus.
 
2) Hover Help text is retained for certain text input form fields as that Hover Help contains additional instructions for completing that form field accurately. In fields where Hover Help is retained, the new implementation is usable from the keyboard and will be read by assistive technologies in addition to the on-screen text labels.
 
3) To meet the need of providing a language translation of the form field instruction in Spanish, only the English Hover Help text was removed at this time.

 

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