After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5 (by saying that, I really hope to be able to use it waaaay before 2011).

The last MooTools version offers a validation plugin in the mootools-more package, that will help us solve our task. Basically we need to add some classes to out inputs, to reflect the type of validation we want. For our form, we need only name – mandatory, and email – mandatory + correct email formatting.

Tweet A good way to learn about accessibility is through examples and discussions. In this post I will try to translate the WCAG sometimes-hard-to-get rules into a copy-paste real contact form example.  You can check the test link, download the code and/or keep reading a bit more. As I mentioned before, contact forms are in [...]