[garvagh]

We want to grey out the submit button once the form is submitted in our web application. Does anybody know if this is 508 compliant?
Thanks.

[volume4]

Hi there,

Whether is 508 or not comes down to how you notify the user of what is happening and this goes even beyond section 508. Greying out the button in itself is not that much of a problem and is probably a good idea.

However, you need to provide the user with some feedback indicating that their request is being processed. For visual users a simple animated graphic will probably do the trick but as well as visually impaired or blind users, you may have to fall back to the javascript alert.

Once the user clicks submit or hit enter, have an alert that clearly states that processing has started. From there on out it becomes a development decision of how long you will give this process to complete before timing out.

And if something goes wrong, you need to use an alert again to notify the user and the move focus to the element that describes what the error was.

HTH,
Schalk Neethling

Originally Posted by garvagh

We want to grey out the submit button once the form is submitted in our web application. Does anybody know if this is 508 compliant?
Thanks.

[theguru]

AJAX can make your job easy.

[volume4]

Yes, it is very simple to do with JavaScript however, I think the main question here was whether disabling the button breaks 508 compliance. And here I believe one just needs to ensure that the user is aware of what is happening.

If one can change the buttons label text to something like 'Request processing....', one can then disable the button but you will need to move focus to the button so that screen readers will read the new label text out to screen reader users.

Have you got a Ajax/JavaScript snippet you can share?

Originally Posted by theguru

AJAX can make your job easy.