Hi Chris, So what your saying is that your current website has form elements for printing the page and then ticked and submitted like a paper form?
There are a few possible ways that you could do this without involving forms that have no submit buttons, because yes it would be confusing for accessibility. the first would be similar to the suggestion but instead of having, no submit buttons you could have a print button that prints the completed form or a blank form this would probably be best for usability also. You could also do a list (ul) and have the style-type set to a image of a square box. or maybe even have a pdf of the form because pdf's are a good for material that is meant to be printed. Let us know how you go, as i'm also interested what everyone else thinks. David Thomas [email protected] On 12/09/2011, at 12:57 PM, Chris Vickery wrote: > Hi all, > We’ve got some flat forms on our site, ie. They are not interactive forms, > and have no submit button. They are indicating that it’s a check list that > can be ticked once the page is printed. > > Someone suggested putting in regular check boxes and having no submit button, > but wouldn’t that make it confusing from both and accessibility and usability > point of view? > At the same time using a graphical or styled element with Alt tag seems messy > and cringe worthy as a work around. > > I’ve got my own ideas, but what does everyone think is best practice in this > case? > > Regards, > Chris > > ********************************************************************** > WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part > of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email > in error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you > notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, > together with any attachments. > ********************************************************************** > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
