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Accessible HTML5 Forms – Required Inputs

John — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:12:54 +0000

HTML5 has added a number of new element attributes, including 12 attributes used when creating forms. These Common input element attributes include 2 new Boolean attributes, the required attribute and the readonly attribute. Recently a number of current browsers have implemented native support for the 'required' attribute, and so I thought it woulde be useful to examine this attribute in more detail.

My Thing About the Thing That Thing Wrote About Thing

John — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:21:45 +0000

Late last week, Divya Manian wrote an article entitled Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value, where, after sort of getting things half-right, half-wrong she concludes with the following:

There is no harm using div elements; you can continue using them instead of section and article. I think we should use the new elements to make your mark-up readable, not for any inherent semantic advantage.

Divya is quite confused about web accessibility. I examine everything she says in a detailed, semi-sarcastic, no-holds barred manner. Conclusion: Semantics matter - a lot.

WYSIWYG support for @longdesc today

John — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:44:19 +0000

The @longdesc "discussion" just won't go away. Over on the W3C mailing list, Tantek Çelik said something that I wanted to drill into a bit further...