Contact us - South London and Maudsley

Our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) provides advice and information about our services.

Capital Projects and Modernisation Programme - South London and Maudsley

Child Wellbeing Practitioners - South London and Maudsley

Coronavirus Covid-19 - South London and Maudsley

Get Involved at CAMHS - South London and Maudsley

Quality Centre - South London and Maudsley

Staff Awards - South London and Maudsley

Our strategy. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's operational strategy.

Treatment and care under the Mental Health Act

To comply with WCAG 2.1, fields must identify what their purpose is _programmatically_. If done correctly,
this allows browsers to help users fill in forms with known information, such as their name and email address.

This is accomplished via the `autocomplete` attribute, which should be set to a 
[supported value](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete) wherever
appropriate, e.g. 

```html
<label for="name">
  First Name
</label>
<input id="name" type="text" autocomplete="given-name">
```

For fields where `autocomplete` is not appropriate, e.g. due to security, or the field not matching the
specification, the specific field should be ignored.

## Methodology

* All fields which could support `autocomplete` (e.g. text fields)
  are checked. Other fields - like dropdown menus - are ignored.
* The [accessible name](https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.2/) of each field is considered. In most cases this
  will be the `<label>` for the field.
* If the name matches a known pattern the field 
  must have an appropriate `autocomplete` value specified.
  For example, an `<input>` with type `text` with a label of 
  "First Name" would be expected to have an autocomplete value 
  of `given-name` or similar.

Note that using `autocomplete="on"` is not sufficient to pass this check, a
specific named autocomplete value must be used. See the
[supported values](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete).

## Troubleshooting

If a field is a false positive, check whether the field has an 
appropriate accessible name (i.e. a `<label>` or `aria-label`).

If the label is incorrect, Silktide may assume that the field 
requires `autocomplete` where it does not. You should fix the 
label to avoid this.

Otherwise, you can simply ignore the specific field.

## More information

* [How to use HTML 5.2 attributes](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/html/H98)

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Contact us - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/contact-us	12
Our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) provides advice and information about our services.slam.nhs.uk/pals	6
Capital Projects and Modernisation Programme - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/modernisation	6
Child Wellbeing Practitioners - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/cwp-home	5
Coronavirus Covid-19 - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/covid19-leaflets	5
Get Involved at CAMHS - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/cyp-get-involved	5
Quality Centre - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/qualitycentre	5
Staff Awards - South London and Maudsleyslam.nhs.uk/staff-awards	5
Our strategy. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's operational strategy.slam.nhs.uk/strategy	5
Treatment and care under the Mental Health Actslam.nhs.uk/mentalhealthact	5

Identify the purpose of fields programmatically

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