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Creating accessible forms - Dreamweaver Tutorial
From the course: Dreamweaver CS6 Essential Training
Creating accessible forms
Creating an accessible form takes a minimal amount of work, and the increased access that you give users to your site makes it well worth the extra time. Just as with images and tables, Dreamweaver has accessibility features built into its form creation tools. Once you set the Accessibility Preferences for form elements in Dreamweaver, you're prompted from then on to set accessibility settings for form elements as you build the form. This workflow makes the process of building accessible forms quick and painless. Let's take a moment to set our Form Accessibility Preferences and review what you can do to make your forms more accessible. So I have the form_practice.htm file open, from the 10_03 directory. The first thing I want to do is point your attention to a preference that we set very early on into the course. So if I go to Edit and choose Preferences, of course that's Dreamweaver>Preferences on the Mac, and I go to our Accessibility category up top, Form objects should already be…
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Understanding how forms work2m 45s
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Reviewing form design3m 44s
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Creating accessible forms5m 16s
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Setting form properties2m 39s
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Using the fieldset and legend tags2m 52s
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Inserting text fields6m 56s
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Inserting list menu items7m 54s
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Inserting checkboxes4m 14s
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Inserting radio button groups3m 52s
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Inserting submit buttons2m 25s
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Exploring basic form styling8m 2s
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Exploring form element styling8m 36s
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