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[Hamel, Mary M (IHS/NPA)]

I appreciate everyone's input. This will be very helpful.

To expand on this theme, are there also resources for PDF forms? I
checked out Adobe Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer, but would like to find
information that provides greater depth. For example, is there any
benefit to adding the length of a form field or it's format or type?

Thanks again!

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Hi Mary

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Hamel, Mary M (IHS/NPA)
<Mary.Hamel at ihs.gov> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an authoritative guide for creating/designing
accessible web forms? (Note: if you are aware of a published government
standard and can share it-that would be great!)

You have received some good book suggestions. Mike Paciello's book is
great background, but also practical. I have hand-written some code
plucked out of that book because all the accessible info I was looking
for was in one place - with examples, too.

Here are some more tips culled from my mails over on the AccessAbility
SIG list (I'll end up blogging about them over at www.stc-access.org -
the SIG's blog)

Not authoritative, but useful: http://webaxe.blogspot.com/ - podcasts
on accessible forms (and lots more)

>From "The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) ... a worldwide
association of professional organisations, web designers and
developers working together to promote the use and preservation of
accessible design standards":

Articles on creating accessible forms:
http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=244
and exercises
http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=245
from Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course
http://www.gawds.org/show.php?contentid=253

Course from Open University Learning Space (UK) (online)
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2057
(Comments welcome from Caroline Jarrett here as to whether there is
much, if any, detail about accessible forms)

Creating Accessible Forms article from WebAIM (highly respected
site/source)
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/

Article "Showing Good Form" from Accessible Content magazine
http://www.accessiblecontent.com/online/v2n1/index.php?view=forms1
By Catherine M. Brys and Wim Vanderbauwhede (some of you may know
Catherine)

I hope this provides more food for thought.

regards, Karen Mardahl (disclaimer: AccessAbility SIG Co-Manager)
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