what forms are inaccessible to you?

[deborah]

I was process of fixing an inaccessible form, and went to go swipe some CSS from another form -- and realized that other one also had accessibility problems. Whoops.

So now I'm on a mad dash to do some form accessibility remediation. It's a nice easy task which provides a big net win.

Tell me which forms you have accessibility problems with, and I will add them to my list.

The ones on my current list are the poll creator and the form to submit a support request.

At a minimum, tell me which form causes the problems, and I will play with it. Ideally, tell me

1. which form causes the problems
2. the nature of the problems
3. what browser and browser version you are using
4. what adaptive tech you are using, if any

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[jesse_the_k]

And the same form is inaccessible due to cognitive issues. Every time I use it I have to figure it out all over again. Off to dink around.

OK, first it took me 10 minutes just to find this form:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/editfilters

and now I remember my issue. This form works from the circle to the members. It starts with, say, "all the people I'll talk about sex with." Then it presents you with a list of all your friends. You then exclude the people you don't want to talk about sex with — the double negative is part of my confusion.

When I think about this feature, I'm focused on my members. I want to look at, say, lightgetsin and assign her to all the filters where I want her. Instead of having two lists with the items jumping back and forth, there would be one list with a ticky box.

(As far as location, there are more places to set options in DW than I can ever find. Sometimes I'll be able to find it the docs/FAQ, but not always. I'm intuiting no logic why the access filters, for example, are on a different page than the access/subscribe controls.)

While this page is great!
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/filters
I don't have to figure out to use it at all. It is self-evident.

and

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/
is fabulous: provides five options! tells you what they are!
Why can't all those pages have a "back to option central" link?

I feel embarrassed to say this, but I'm not dumb. I designed UIs and ran beta tests and all sorts of fancy la-de-da back in the day. It's just that my brain cells have taken a beating from a variety of directions, and I know this stuff could make more sense.

[deborah]

Thanks so much , this is awesome detail. And of course you shouldn't be embarassed! We should be; bad usability is our problem.