GOV.UK Design System

Government Digital Service. (2018). GOV.UK Design System: Error summary and Error message components.

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Year

2018

Link

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/error-summary/

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Domain-specific

• Responsive-Layout Breakage
  • The UK Government Digital Service built its GOV.UK Design System around preventing exactly this failure for public-services delivery

    This sourceThat the Government Digital Service maintains the GOV.UK Design System of shared, research-based styles, components and patterns for government services.

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• Robust Accessibility
  • The GOV.UK Design System, maintained by the UK Government Digital Service, is a real field deployment of the principle at national scale.

    This sourceThe GOV.UK Design System, maintained by a team at the Government Digital Service, whose reusable styles, components and patterns are used to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. The GOV.UK Design System's reuse of pre-built components (button, date input, error summary, accordion) written with semantic HTML and ARIA and tested for accessibility against screen readers, browsers and assistive tools.

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    “The GOV.UK Design System is maintained by a team at the Government Digital Service.”

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• Screen-Reader Ambiguity
  • The UK's GOV.UK Design System codifies the fix as a reusable, deployed pattern: on submission it moves focus to an "error summary" component listing each problem as an in-page link to the offending field, and it ties each field's inline error message to its input with aria-describedby so the message is announced when the field receives focus

    This sourceThe GOV.UK error summary, which receives focus on submission and links each error to its field, and inline error messages tied to their inputs with aria-describedby.

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