Designing Accessible Forms
taught by: Jim Allan
Description:
Forms are a conversation with users. They 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 HTML5 and CSS. We will review how screen-readers and other assistive technologies interact with online forms.
Practical Skills:
- Using semantic html to create accessible forms
- Ways to label a form control
- 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
Presentation Materials:
PDF Document Remediation · Workshop (September 17, 2020)
This class will start with the very basics of document remediation. We will work our way from start to finish to complete a full WCAG compliant document. We will cover: Language Specification/