Between running FormKeep and completing dozens of client projects each year, we spend a lot of time thinking about forms.
Here are a few questions we ask ourselves for each form we write:
- Did we remember to give every input a label? (No, placeholders are not an adequate replacement)?
- Do our labels’
forattributes match our inputs’ids? - Did we take advantage of the
url,email, andpasswordinput types, or did we forget and just usetext? - Are our required fields marked as such?
Doing all these things right is worth the effort: improvements like these improve accessibility and increase conversions. However, checking this sort of thing by hand is tedious and error-prone.
Important but tedious? Sounds like a job for a program. So we wrote one!
It’s called FormLinter. Bet you can’t guess what it does. (It lints forms.)
Just supply the URL of a public page containing a form, and we’ll do the rest. We’ll show your form’s letter grade, a list of issues that hurt your score, and tips on fixing each one.
Better accessibility, more conversions, and no tedium.
Sound good? Give it a try.