CBC fails basic accessibility

I don’t know if I’m supposed to give them extra credit because it’s the holidays or something, but CBC has managed to put together one of the worst forms I’ve ever seen, as far as accessibility goes. Maybe no one there ever tabs between form fields, but for people like myself, and for thousands of Canadians with disabilities preventing them from using a mouse, this form is nigh-unusable.

I’m not sure how the problem came to be – I haven’t looked at the HTML and don’t care to – but I know you have to go pretty far out of your way to get the browser to skip entire blocks of form fields.

I discovered this when signing up for an account with them and trying to progress past the Email field. Now, admittedly I have seen forms that were completely messed up, where tabbing took you to an apparently random box, resulting in a connect-the-dots, family-circus ordeal, never knowing which field you’ll be required to fill in next (and not having ‘Password’ and ‘Retype Password’ one after the other is jarring), but never anything that completely skipped over two thirds of the form.

Seriously CBC, get with it. You’ve been so good with new media, but you can’t get a simple form right? That’s sad.