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An excellent article on creating accessible web page forms.
:: Sasha, at 07:39 pm on Saturday, 03. July 2004
Quick notes:
1. The articles uses incorrect terminology, calling HTML elements "entities", a term which -does- mean something (completely different) in an HTML context. Perhaps something like "constructs" would have been better
2. The author doesn't make it too obvious in the text that <label> elements are associated with a form control's ID and not its name. Though the examples clear it up, it would be prudent to clarify in the text
3. The first <fieldset> example uses a <select> element, but the image displays a series of radio buttons. Oops
4. Getting off-track, the examples aren't all that easy to read with the funky highlighting, large-ish line height and no indenting. Some preformatted text would probably have been better
5. The article refers to both HTML and XHTML elements interchangably. Though the two vocabularies -are- the same, it could be confusing to some readers
6. The "advanced" page uses -more- incorrect terminology, calling :focus a "pseudo property" when it is a pseudo-class Again, a property is a CSS context is something completely different, so these terms really should -not- be confused
7. The author says not to use a <u> element to highlight accesskeys, prosumably because presentational markup is bad---this is faulty reasoning. A styled <span> is functionally as meaningless as <u>, -and- doesn't degrade in non-CSS visual agents that support HTML4. Bad, says I
:: J. King, at 02:09 pm on Sunday, 04. July 2004
Nothing is perfect. I agree with some of your notes, but still think that it is a good article to read.
:: Sasha, at 09:22 am on Monday, 05. July 2004
Well it is good article to read, but sash, I just made an alalyse... for my new company.... we have records about 200.000 forms all over the internet and now we analyse them... you would suprise how little form types are there...
:: zoka, at 01:19 am on Tuesday, 06. July 2004
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