Derek Featherstone has created a great resource called Simply Accesible which is based on his recent presentation at Web Essentials 05, in Sydney, Australia.
Derek has some great new thoughts on the design and authoring of accessible forms. I’m particularly excited about the idea of grouping all required form fields in their own “required” fieldset, while creating an “optional” fieldset for the rest of the fields. This is a fresh idea that warrants further exlporation. Thanks, Derek!
Glad you liked the examples! The thing that I’ve found with most of the work I’ve done in accessibility is that often there are simple solutions, but we (myself included) often make it more complicated than it really is, opting for more complex solutions. That was the whole motivation behind my presentation, its examples, and the new website to go with it….
Cheers,
Derek.
Thanks for stopping by, Derek. I really need to check for comments more often.
I recently joined PayPal and I plan on putting into practice your accessible forms source order technique here.