Designing Accessible Forms
taught by: Jim Allan
Description:
Forms can pose unique usability and accessibility challenges to people, including those using assistive and mobile technologies. This BYOL hands-on session will review current practices and strategies to making form fields usable and accessible using semantic HTML and CSS. We will review how screen-readers and speech recognition technologies interact with online forms. The use and accessibility support of HTML5 forms will also be reviewed.
Practical Skills:
- Using semantic html to create accessible forms
- Ways to label a form control - Using
- Using form control types for better mobile experience
- Form usability
- Grouping form controls
- Reporting errors to the user
- Form instructions
- Form accessibility attributes across platforms and browsers
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of HTML
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