Thursday, 6 March 2008

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Personal Research Project: Artefact 4 - Labelling Forms Correctly


For my fourth artefact, I discovered that forms is another top typical accessible issue on websites. Forms are one of the most crucial parts of your website. They are used to:


  • Buy products
  • Sign up to newsletters
  • Contact you

I found that the group of users who experiences the most problems with forms is usually visually impaired users utilising screen readers. Therefore I have created a simple form, which users are able to fill in the form to recieve the latest updates on their travelguide.

I learnt that a normal form-building — wrapping a form input with its label, can seriously impact the accessibility and usability of a web form. Here is an example shown below of an incorrect labelled form:





Here is a good example of an accessible form:




Below shows a screenshot of my of my accessible form on my website.