Error Messages Collocated

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/error-handling/correct-errors/error-messages-collocated.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #790 Two big concerns about “Error messages collocated” open 0 comments · updated 2026-08-02
• #877 And/or in “Error messages collocated” is confusing open 0 comments · updated 2026-09-28

WCAG 2.2 Criteria That Map Here

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W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/error-handling/correct-errors/error-messages-collocated.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/error-handling/correct-errors/error-messages-collocated.md

Error messages are visually collocated with the error source or the focus is moved to the error message and a mechanism is available to move to the input that is in error. 

:::applies-when
- Error messages relate to user input.
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