Tweet 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 beauty consists in having all the above mentioned validation inside HTML code: we’ll have input type=”email” for email addresses type=”url”...
Read moreTweet As we discussed in a previous article about forms -Basic copy-paste accessible contact form - we made the form validation accessible using a class that will highlight and point to the elements that need to be filled or corrected in case the validation failed. Now, the only weak point form the user’s point of view is the fact that we need to refresh the page every time he hits submit, this being somehow annoying. Nowadays most browsers offer a client-side processing...
Read moreTweet 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 great need of special markup in order to be accessible. And it seems that there’s always room for improvements – in case you have suggestions or your...
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