You can use reportValidity, however it has poor browser support yet. It works on Chrome, Opera and Firefox but not on IE nor Edge or Safari:
var myform = $("#my-form")[0];
if (!myform.checkValidity()) {
if (myform.reportValidity) {
myform.reportValidity();
} else {
//warn IE users somehow
}
}
(checkValidity has better support, but does not work on IE<10 neither.)