Tag: HTML

Proper document markup. Separating structure from presentation and behavior. The lowercase semantic web. Building accessible, cross-platform, cross-browser pages. Using web standards correctly. HTML evolves into a language built for applications, not just documents. New semantics. Responsive images and other conundrums. Canvas and accessibility. Audio, video, and fallbacks. The politics of HTML: WHAT WG and the W3C.

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Upgrading form validation messages

Post author By Vernon
Post date 30 November, 2019
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Red colour #D4351C on a white backround gives sufficient contrast ratio to pass Level AA compliance with WCAG Contrast (Minimum)

Our registration form wizard used a mix of inaccessible default browser error messages and ambiguous custom form validation messages in red text.

Tags accessibility, CSS, forms, HTML

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When and where to set spellcheck =”false”

Post author By Vernon
Post date 1 October, 2019
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A form will spellcheck your name, email and postal address, giving false positives. I’ll share how I tweak this for a less jarring form-filling experience.