Digital Hall of Fame Error Suggestion Audit for Search and Forms
When a visitor searches a digital hall of fame for an athlete by name and receives a blank results page with no guidance, the recognition platform has failed them twice: it did not find what they were looking for, and it offered no path forward. WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 3.3.3 (Error Suggestion, Level AA) requires that when a search or form input produces a detectable error and a correction can be determined, that suggestion must appear in text. For school administrators and athletic directors managing nomination workflows, inductee search tools, and category filter interfaces, an error suggestion audit identifies exactly which inputs fail this standard—and what actionable guidance they should be providing instead. What Error Suggestion Means for Hall of Fame Search and Forms WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 3.3.3 — Error Suggestion (Level AA) states: if an input error is automatically detected and suggestions for correction are known, then the suggestions are provided to the user, unless doing so would jeopardize the security or purpose of the content.
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