Website Accessibility Tips: #1: form field size
Chandesh Parekh
Digital Solutions for Business: Reputation Marketing, Web Development & Web Accessibility | Specialising in reputation marketing for community pharmacies
Why should your web forms have large fields??
Aside from helping make your form look professional, by making it feel comfortable to use, large fields make for large targets for fingers for users on touch screens e.g. smartphones and tablets, allowing them to click into the fields easily. This immediately improves the usability of your form, which will lead to more users filling them in and converting to leads or whatever the purpose of your form is.
The second advantage of using large fields is that users with visual disabilities can more easily see the field(s) on the screen, again helping with usability and making your form more accessible.
So don't leave your form fields as narrow, tight fields - get your web designer to add some padding or minimum height settings and your users will thank you for it!
Follow the hashtag #AccessibilityByNERO for more tips on making your website more accessible.
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3 年I can honestly say Chandesh Parekh that I had never even thought about the size of the field reference users with mobile devices!
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3 年This is sound advice Chandesh, to some this is obvious however some developers just do not instinctively see usability issues. ??