If you’ve ever tried to use the keyboard to navigate around a form on a webpage, you may have noticed that it’s often very hard to see which form item is currently selected. With most form elements, this isn’t too hard to fix – you can add a border around the currently selected textbox with CSS, for example. But, radio buttons and check boxes are both very hard to make visible.<\/p>\n
Following on from some accessibility work that we’ve been doing for a client, we’ve developed a JQuery JavaScript plugin that helps fix this problem, and helps make web forms more accessible. We’ve released this as Open Source, and we’ve called it the JQuery labelFocus plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve ever tried to use the keyboard to navigate around a form on a webpage, you may have noticed that it’s often very hard to see which form item is currently selected. With most form elements, this isn’t too hard to fix – you can add a border around the currently selected textbox with … Continue reading “Increasing accessibility of radio buttons and checkboxes on forms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.67bricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}