Accessible Web Forms

Behold! a new writer and a new cat­e­gory to write about. Topher was kind enough to intro­duce me below, so I will just jump right in. As a web devel­oper who strives to make accessible/usable web­sites, one of the chal­lenges is mak­ing html forms acces­si­ble. One of my projects last week was to whip up a quick sur­vey for my employer. I’m inter­ested in any feed­back fel­low devel­op­ers might have on the cod­ing tech­niques I’ve imple­mented. In par­tic­u­lar, I’m inter­ested on people’s thoughts on my use of the “field­set” and “leg­end” tags. I am also inter­ested in peo­ples’ thoughts on my check­boxes. I didn’t use “label” tags because I felt that the lay­out was log­i­cal enough to not require it. But I am inter­ested in if peo­ple feel it is bad form to have the actual check­box come before the option that you are check­ing off? Please use the ‘com­ment’ func­tion to give your feed­back, and don’t be shy.