How does automatically checking answers make 'accessibility suffer'?

Submitted by neilhammond on Tue, 02/19/2019 - 20:52
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I would like to set quizzes to 'Automatically Check Answers' so that the user doesn't need to hit Check every time. Under the Automatic checking option in the back end it says, "Enabling this option will make accessibility suffer, make sure you know what you're doing.".....what does this mean? How will it suffer?

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icc

Thu, 02/21/2019 - 09:59

Automatically "submitting" the answer to get a grading without the user making an active choice e.g. through clicking a button is not considered good practice according to the WCAG guidelines. I do not recall the exact succession criteria for this.

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jyamamo

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 14:58

I have the same question. In terms of what I want to do it seems like the right option for the kind of multiple choice question I want to devise (see, for example, https://educationalhub.org/speecc/presperfsimpcont), but I frequently get  the following error message coming up on the page:

Service UnavailableThe server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. 

The instructions say "Enabling this option will make accessibility suffer, make sure you know what you're doing" and clearly I don't know what I'm doing here, but how do I find out?

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BV52

Tue, 11/12/2019 - 18:41

Hi iyamamo,

I checked the site but I did not see the error message. Please check the browser console for errors since it gives more details regarding what may be causing the issue. Also the option to automatically check the answer should not create this problem and this only applies if you are using a screen reader.

-BV

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jyamamo

Wed, 11/13/2019 - 01:49

Thanks, BV52!

Yes, it doesn't always happen, but it happens often enough to be a problem.

The page is slow to load, so I wonder if perhaps the error message is, in effect, some kind of timeout? It tends to occur piecemeal, with most of the questions loading correctly and just one or two of them displaying the error message. I'll be using pages like these for a demonstration this weekend, so I'll need to go and change them all manually, removing the "automatically check answers" option,  unless I can reliably prevent the error message from coming up.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

John