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Keyboard Accessibility & Formidable Forms Collapsible Sections

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Today, many countries have some sort of accessibility laws enacted that are designed to provide full and equal enjoyment to the disabled who access our online offerings. In the United States, this is primarily the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

As a website owner, you are most likely required to comply with ADA Title III. Title III prohibits disability-based discrimination for “places of public accommodations”. Places of public accommodation generally include private businesses that are open to the public, such as restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, museums, and doctor’s offices.

U.S. Federal Courts and the U.S. Department of Justice hold that while the ADA does not specifically address web accessibility, its language is still broad enough to include websites as part of business operations. The global nature of the Internet ensures your website is a place of public accommodation.

Accessibility Standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web: HTML, CSS, and many more.

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help us understand and implement accessibility.

We can use W3C WAI resources to make our websites, applications, and other digital creations more accessible and usable to everyone.

The W3C WAI developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It is the international standard for web accessibility. US courts recognize WCAG 2.0, in effect since 2008, as the standard for ADA compliance.

In the European Union, the EU web accessibility directive effective in EU member states as of 23 September 2018 references WCAG 2.1 as the standard to be used.

Accessibility is Good for Business

The Business Case for Digital Accessibility describes that accessibility can drive innovation, enhance your brand, extend market reach, and minimize legal risk. It includes direct and indirect benefits of accessibility, and the risks of not addressing accessibility adequately. It provides case studies and examples that demonstrate how continued investment in accessibility is good for your organization. Please take the time to read this important resource.

Keyboard Accessibility

To accommodate people with Physical or Motor Disabilities, a key WCAG requirement is to provide keyboard accessibility to any area that requires someone to click a mouse button to display its content. This means that anywhere you click to show content also has to work by using the keyboard alone, either by pressing the return key or space bar. Examples include, but aren't limited to, drop-down menus and collapsible areas.

While the Formidable Forms developers have done a great job in making their product accessible in a general sense, there's one area that appears to have been overlooked. If you create a form with collapsible sections, those sections are not accessible from the keyboard. You can't toggle them open or closed using the keyboard alone. Luckily, there's a pretty simple fix.

Tabindex

The first step is to add tabindex="0" to the h3 element rendered as the collapsible section's title.

Collapsible Section HTML Before

Navigate to the form's customize HTML page and find the HTML source code for the collapsible section.

View the code on Gist.

Collapsible Section HTML After

Add tabindex="0" to the h3 element.

View the code on Gist.

tabindex="0" allows elements besides links and form elements to receive keyboard focus. It does not change the tab order, but places the element in the logical navigation flow, as if it were a link on the page.

Collapsible Section jQuery

Add the following jQuery to the after fields area on the form's customize HTML page.

View the code on Gist.

This jQuery monitors the h3.frm_trigger keydown event and fires the element's click() event that Formidable uses to open/close the collapsible section. The keydown event is fired for all keys, regardless of whether they produce a character value.

Since, we're monitoring a class that is part of every collapsible section, using the "this" keyword to trigger the click event ensures that this simple jQuery snippet will work for all collapsible sections on your form.

What a pleasant change! The Google Maps team has done some fantastic work making their app functional with the keyboard. After lacking accessible maps functionality for years, this is a huge improvement! They’ve obviously done a lot of work for assistive technology users as well, with appropriate semantics and intentional, accessible user experience in this complex web application. I’d be willing to bet if you have feedback for them on how to improve it, they’d love to hear from you.

From Manuel Matuzović:

Recently I tried using Google Maps with the keyboard and it works pretty great.

Tab/Shift+Tab to show the blue square Arrow keys for moving around +/- for zooming in and out Numbers 1-7 for selecting places

Explanation and more shortcuts: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6396990?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

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I have coordination/proprioception problems and rsi.

I can’t type with two hands or several fingers at once.

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