- Success Criterion 3.3.4
- Conformance level AA
Financial Transfer Form That Never Confirms the Entered Details
3.3.4 — Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)
Scenario
Setting
A childcare-booking service's scheduling page
What’s wrong
Financial transfer forms validating nothing (typo'd amounts/accounts) and no confirmation of details.
Example
Consider a childcare-booking service's scheduling page: financial transfer forms validating nothing (typo'd amounts/accounts) and no confirmation of details.
Why it matters
Everyone in legal, financial, or data-changing flows — especially people prone to input mistakes. On a childcare-booking service's scheduling page, that means they can't tell what a field wants or why it failed.
How to test
Submit a financial transfer form with a typo'd amount or account number: if nothing validates it and no confirmation of the details is shown, it fails.
How to fix
The submission must be reversible, checked with a chance to correct, or confirmed through an editable review step.
Outcome
With the fix in place on a childcare-booking service's scheduling page, they complete the form without guessing.
Who is affected
Everyone in legal, financial, or data-changing flows — especially people prone to input mistakes.
Learn more
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