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developing Supplemental requirement

Submission Status Notified

Group: error-handling • Guideline: prevent-errors

Summary in Plain English

When a submission succeeds or fails, the interface says so at the time it happens.

Why It Matters

Without an announcement, a screen reader user has no way to know whether anything happened, and may submit again - or leave believing a task is done when it failed.

Scope: When This Applies

The draft's own conditions, quoted from guidelines/groups/error-handling/prevent-errors/submission-status-notified.md.

Applies when

  • data submission has succeeded or failed.