Archive for the 'accessibility' Category

Review of “Web Form Design, Filling in the Blanks”

August 4th, 2008

“Forms suck.  If you don’t believe me, try to find people who like filling them in.”
Are you kidding, I paid for a book that begins like that?  My first reaction was that I could have written that!  Well I didn’t write it, and I also feel that I got my money’s worth out of Web [...]


Using the label element for form accessibility

March 9th, 2008

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things:

It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element.
For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger [...]