Usability and ergonomics

Design simple application forms

Keep your forms as simple as possible. Because everything will be described by the screen reader software, it is preferable to have a lot of small and concise forms with a few fields. With forms containing a lot of labels and fields, the screen reader will take a long time to enumerate every name and description. The end user must be able to create an image of the form in his mind, based on the form description.

Make form content bigger

Consider using big fonts, big icons, and high contrast color themes; this will make your application a lot more efficient for users who are partially sighted. Forms will take more space on the screen, assuming that the forms have a limited number of fields to have sufficient room for large widgets.

GBC supports customization and themes, to define globally the rendering of all your forms. This is a good solution to provide application forms with accessibility. See for example, the "High Contrast" predefined theme.