Designing Accessible Forms
taught by: Jim Allan
Session Summary
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.
Description
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
Practical Skills
- be able to use Using semantic html to create accessible forms
- Identify Ways to label a form control - Using LABEL , TITLE ATTRIBUTE, ARIA-, TABLE HEADERS
- Use form control types for better mobile experience