Page refresh and screenreader users issue

[Webnauts]

Dear co-members,

We launched our redesign on the 20th of March, and we are still working on optimizing our site accessibility.
Therefore we need your opinion about the following issue:

The guideline 31 "Do not exclude labels form fields" for Accessible and Usable Web Sites found here http://redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
mentions that "When filling out a field makes the page refresh, the software starts reading from the top as if it were a new a page.... That is a time saver for sighted users, but is made the page refresh so that the screen reader started over at the top of the page".

Though we came up with the following solution:

We added a title to the "Submit" button "Page will reload!", and using a server-side solution, we managed that when the user clicks there, the page reloads, and the
user will be go back to the same place he/she have been, and he/she can view or hear the success or error message.

What is your opinion about that solution? Feel free to test that on our web site here: http://www.webnauts.net (Training Academy or Newsletter).
Also, if this is an appropriate solution, would it be necessary to add a notice before the "Submit" button, that the page will reload? Or add an alt tag
on the button?

Thanks in advance for your kind responses.

[sands]

Also, if this is an appropriate solution, would it be necessary to add a notice before the "Submit" button, that the page will reload? Or add an alt tag on the button?

Yep, the solution does seem effective and I do not suppose any such notice would be necessary. No harm in adding it though. But if the form is in just one part of the page, would the error message be read first? Forgive my ignorance. I really do not know how screen readers work.

But one thing I would like to add here, I was just wondering why the Accessibility and Usablility forum is not seeing too much of activity. Doesn't it mean that not too many folks are taking this issue seriously?

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by sands

But one thing I would like to add here, I was just wondering why the Accessibility and Usablility forum is not seeing too much of activity. Doesn't it mean that not too many folks are taking this issue seriously?

If every one knew how important accessibility and usability is for business on the web, we would have the most activity here.

Here are some articles about these issues, me and my associates wrote and published on our web site:

1. The need of accessibility

2. Why accessibility is important to you

3. Why usability is important to you