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Aytekin

JotForm Accessible Forms - Online forms for everyone

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At JotForm, we believe everyone should be able to access online forms. That’s why we make it easy for you to create accessible online forms for all your site visitors, including those with disabilities.

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Aytekin
Jotform
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Our goal at JotForm is, and always has been, to make online forms easy for everyone. But no product is perfect from the start. Since 2006, the JotForm team has been hard at work developing and adding new features designed to make your work and life easier — but we realized that even with our impressive library of templates, integrations, and form fields, our online forms haven’t been accessible to everyone. So we checked our able-bodied privilege, and started taking steps to correct that. With Accessible Forms, we’ve created a built-in accessibility checker that lets you know if you’re using form fields that aren’t Section 508 compliant and may pose an obstacle to people filling in your form. By removing these fields, you can easily make sure your forms are accessible to all. Please let us know what you think! We hope you like our new feature, and as always, we’re more than happy to read your suggestions for improvement.
Anna Filou
It's awesome that you're thinking about accessibility and making forms accessible! But why does a user have to "enable Form Accessibility" instead of it being on by default? If it's possible for your forms to be accessible, then why do users have the option of making them inaccessible? > "Here at JotForm, we believe everyone, including users with disabilities, should be able to easily access online forms. Check out our video on how to enable form accessibility." If that's really the case, why does there even have to be a video on how to enable form accessibility? Why is the option buried in the settings instead of being on by default? Accessibility shouldn't be a nice-to-have, optional feature.
Aytekin
Jotform
Maker
@anna_0x Hi Anna! Thank you so much for your comment. We agree with your comment and we have plans in the same direction for form accessibility. As of today, we have to keep the setting because our forms need more work to be accessible by default. However, our next step is to update our form builder so all the fields will be accessible by default.
Anna Filou
@aytekintank I see, that makes sense! But the product not being ready kind of contrasts with this big launch/announcement... I think it would have been better to wait until you're ready to make it the default setting and THEN announce it 😅 My two cents.
Aleix Ramon
Nice update @Aytekin and team btw love your posts!
Aytekin
Jotform
Maker
@aytekin @aleix_ramon Thanks for the nice words Aleix, happy to hear that you like my posts as well.
Necati
Proud of you as a Turkish maker !
Aytekin
Jotform
Maker
@mr_b Thank you!
Edison Espinosa
Love this.
Aytekin
Jotform
Maker
@edisonjoao6871 Thanks Edison, I'm glad to hear that.
Lara Zakarian
Wow! This is such a testament to JotForm's commitment to making sure that its products are accessible to anyone. Excited to share this with my team.
Aytekin
Jotform
Maker
@thelarazakarian Wonderful to hear that, hopefully your team will find it helpful.
SERKAN DAYICIK
It's awesome, Definitely a useful service.