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Five Resources to Help You Code Accessible Forms, Form Validation, and Error Messages

I'm working on the first of several accessible forms tutorial articles today. It's taking longer than I'd planned to code and write another Cats and Coffee themed tutorial. So for this week's Web Accessibility Wednesdays, here's some of the resources I'm using.

  1. A Guide To Accessible Form Validation
    • Sandrina Pereira
    • Publication: Smashing Magazine
    • Format: Article with embedded codepen
    • Feb 27, 2023
  2. Structuring Accessible Forms
    • Rachele DiTullio
    • Publication: Rachele DiTullio.com
    • Format: Article with embedded CodePen, and links to GitHub and several YouTube videos
    • Note: The Axe-Con webinar on March 2023 has American Sign Language interpretation
    • Last updated: March 17, 2023
  3. Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery
    • Publication: Web AIM Blog
    • Format: Article with code snippets
  4. The Anatomy of Accessible Forms: Error Messages
  5. Create accessible forms

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