This Session is all about Sitecore Forms and Accessibility.

A presentation to Adam Najmanovicz and the Sitecore Forms development team in November 2021 inspired me to do that submission.

The feedback from the Sitecore Forms team was like: "Brilliant presentation" or "This was an eye opener", a reason for me to share that with the whole community.

But, what am I talking about?

For example: Blind people have to use screen readers when reading a website, to understand what is happening. Regular websites can easily read by screen readers but if you have a form on the site with mandatory fields and custom validations things may get complex.

The whole Sitecore Forms backend was reworked to be accessibility ready, there are many adjustments to do but these are none breakable changes and hopefully soon be part of the product itself.

Many Sitecore developers are missing custom validation messages, this is done by a "Custom validation message" field in the Forms Backend. Custom localizeable text can be used to validate fields, otherwise the default validation message from Sitecore will be displayed.

For me it is important to raise awareness about this topic and to get disabled people more integrated into the society.

You will learn a lot about accessibility, standards and tools and hopefully this session will become an eye opener for you as well!

Please join!