Accessibility readings

Written March 31. 2004, at 13:55 GMT.

• Jeffrey Veen: I don't care about accessibility

  I came here to be on this panel to tell y'all that I don't care about accessibility. Don't care. Not an issue. Hardly ever comes up.

  Here's my big secret for you today. When you design for the Web -- that is, when you design exclusively and specifically for this medium -- when you do that natively, so many of the things we consider problems just start to fall away.

  I know that feeling. :-)

• Accessify: Multiple input form fields ... or how to deal with badly designed forms/labels and still make them accessible.

  (If you ever come across a form with one label text for two or more input elements, that is most likely a sign that the form is poorly designed.)

• WebProWorld topic: Accessible form fields in a tabular grid.

  Conclusion: when you can't use <label>s, use title="" on the <input> field instead. Seems to work well enough.

  (Too bad that current screen-reading software doesn't connect the dots between an <td><input></td> and the corresponding <th> tags. That would make life so much easier.)

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