From the course: Practical Accessibility for Designers

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Designing accessible forms

Designing accessible forms

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Designing accessible forms

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- Forms. Anyone with a website winds up creating them at some point, right? While they're convenient for collecting information from your site visitors, forms come with a whole host of accessibility issues. Let's look at some of these problems and how to solve them. How many accessibility problems do you think that there are with this form? You might be thinking that there aren't any. Actually, there are quite a few issues that could lead to a frustrating experience for a variety of people. First, the labels, or hints, in the email and password fields are missing, or they disappear when you start typing. This means people might not remember what they're supposed to be entering in those fields. Next, how can someone tell which field that they're on if they don't have a mouse? Can you tell that I'm on the "Where will you send from?" field right now? Third, let's have a look at an error message. Sure, there's a message…

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