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Roger Hudson has written a detailed article called Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0. The article provides practical advice about the preparation of accessible HTML forms.
More importantly, it compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0.
There are also a selection of movies where Andrew Downie demonstrate screen readers in action on specific aspects of forms. The videos are embedded in the article, as well as available here:
Oz-IA2008 will be held on 20/21 September. Oz-IA is the premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond.
I’ll be running a half-day workshop as part of the conference:
Forms are possibly the hardest aspect of page layouts to style. This workshop will outline how to take WCAG 2.0 compliant forms and lay them out them using CSS.
Participants will learn:
An overview of CSS basics such as rule sets, selectors and floats
How to style elements such as form, legend, fieldset, inputs, labels
How to overcome some of the harder aspects of form styling such as column layouts, floating in forms and positioning legends
The CSS workshop will run directly after the accessibility workshop, run by Roger Hudson - so you can learn how to use WCAG2 accessible markup for forms, and then how to style the same forms.
Accessible forms with WCAG 2.0 Roger Hudson Half Day Workshop Thursday 18th September, 8.30am-12.30pm When it comes to forms, WCAG 2.0 offers considerable accessibility benefits. This workshop will outline how to make WCAG 2.0 compliant forms that are more accessible and usable for everyone.
Steve Faulkner, from the Paciello Group, has been doing some Accessibility testing of the new Google browser, Chrome. While it is important to remember that the browser is still in beta, and it has a lot of great features, it is not looking good on the accessibility front at this point:
This release of Google Chrome does not appear to have been developed with the needs of users with disabilites taken into account, apart from limited keyboard shortcuts, basic support required for accessibility is absent.
In January 2008 Microsoft announced that if you wanted IE8 to operate in standards mode, a meta element must be inserted into the head of your document.
On 3rd March 2008, The Microsoft development team had a change of heart.
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
The short, focused lessons presented in Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes will help you quickly understand CSS and how to immediately apply it to your work.
