Marco Hengstenberg
Sara SoueidanHey friends #lazyWeb,
Have you come across any forms that don't have a visible label or title that describes what the purpose of the form is? Do you have any examples you can share? Links?
Thank you!
iamdtms@SaraSoueidan clear heading before the form?
fieldset > legend group?
Looking forward to the links & examples :)
fieldset > legend group?
Looking forward to the links & examples :)
@iamdtms yes more like the former: heading before the form.
Janus Troelsen@SaraSoueidan Google doesn't seem to have any explanation for the search input field
@janus search is self-explanatory I would say especially if the <search> element is used. I'm thinking more like <form>s that don't have headings describing their purpose.
Darrell Hilliker 👨🦯♾️📡@SaraSoueidan @prism Hmm. I thought that was like almost all of them?
@darrell73 Not the ones I see. There's always a heading preceding the form or at least some form of description. @prism
@SaraSoueidan @prism I see a lot with little if any description. OK, true, there's usually *something* but that rarely even comes close to meeting any sort of accessibility best practices.
Dion@SaraSoueidan The password reset form on Mastodon doesn't have a heading:
https://mastodon.social/auth/password/new
But I fixed it last week so it won't stay like this for much longer. :-)
https://mastodon.social/auth/password/new
But I fixed it last week so it won't stay like this for much longer. :-)
@diondiondion Oh excellent example! And also glad it'll be fixed 🫶🏻
Amelia Bellamy-Royds@SaraSoueidan So you're specifically talking about a heading/label for the form as a whole?
Something like a log-in form or an email newsletter subscription form where there's just the fields and then the call to action ("sign up", etc.) as the text on the submit button?
I see someone else mentioned search forms, which I think are the most common unlabelled form, and you mentioned that there are specific roles for search now. But I don't know if AT by default looks at submit button text.
@AmeliaBR Yes, correct. I'm looking for examples of forms <form> asking users for information without any label or description. I have never seen one like this before so I'm curious if they exist. Programmatically, many forms are lacking accNames, but I'm curious if this also happens visually.
@SaraSoueidan Well, now I will be on the lookout for this & will send you any examples I stumble across!
Nathan Knowler@SaraSoueidan Maybe a common one would like posting on a social media site? Placeholder labels are quite common for that (e.g. Bluesky “What’s up?”). Those usually seem to open as a dialog though.