Data Entry Validated

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/error-handling/prevent-errors/data-entry-validated.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #523 [Data entry validated] what about fields that depend on content of other fields? open 0 comments · updated 2026-02-17
• #638 Guideline 2.5.2 Prevent errors — validation timing in “Data entry validated” open 0 comments · updated 2026-04-15
• #822 Refine "Data entry validated" text open 0 comments · updated 2026-08-31

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/error-handling/prevent-errors/data-entry-validated.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/error-handling/prevent-errors/data-entry-validated.md

Data entered is validated after the user enters data, either:

* when the user leaves the field, or 
* when the form is submitted