Certain WP Form Plugins Make Accessibility Easy
According to the WAVE web accessibility tool, Gravity Forms scores a perfect score out-of-the-box for their front-end forms. Same with Ninja Forms, Contact Form 7, and WP Forms. I tested 2 other popular WP form plugins that did not fare as well. Gravity Forms’ Investments in Web Accessibility Are Paying Dividends The Tavern reported in 2021 that Gravity Forms invested heavily in web accessibility with their 2.5 release and also reported that Gravity Forms provides lots of information about their approach to accessibility. I was curious to dive deeper on Gravity Forms’ specific web accessibility processes. “We do our testing with keyboard and screen readers,” Morgan Kay, a software engineer at Gravity Forms who works closely with accessibility initiatives at the company says. “We also consider some other implications, such as how usable a feature is on mobile, how it looks in an RTL language, and whether we have sufficient color contrast.” Gravity Forms also tries to help novice users understand when they are making a change that might break accessibility. “One thing Gravity Forms does that’s particularly valuable is that it warns you if you’re using a feature that has known accessibility issues, and that’s a huge time saver…
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