The Webflow Accessibility Crash Course

[@webflowandcode]

How long do you spend considering accessibility on your websites?

[@hal-zeitlin]

Thanks Samuel, always nice listening to you talk.

[@webflowandcode]

Thanks for listening!!

[@juergenizer]

Hello Samuel, thank for this great introduction. In germany this becomes mandatory from July 2025 for certain fields of business (doctors, physiotherapists etc.). I also have a question: I have a mandatory checkbox in my webflow-form and somehow it is impossible for me to check it via keyboard (navigate to the checkbox with tab and select it with enter). Am I doing anything wrong? I am kind of stuck here ... maybe you can help me with that? Greetings from Nuremberg

[@webflowandcode]

Are you using Webflow’s own checkbox? True accessibility should leverage native web browser behavior. It might be that you need to use custom elements to achieve what you want. As a side note, if this is an issue with Webflow’s own checkbox, then this is yet another incident where Webflow becomes hard to recommend as an website tool for EU websites

[@juergenizer]

@@webflowandcode Hey man, thanks for the quick reply!!! Yes, I am using Webflow's own checkbox. I will try to create a custom element for that now. And yeah, your side note says it directly, it is very hard to have GDPR compliance and accessibility with Webflow for EU clients and I think I will give Pinegrow a try when I am better at developing. Thank you again and have a nice day 🌅

[@juergenizer]

@@webflowandcode it was my bad, the problem was sitting in front of the screen, the Webflow checkboxes ARE clickable, I just did it wrong, sorry for the confusion.

[@joanajimenezfernandez8657]

Thanks so much for this content, is sometimes super hard to find any tutorial about this

[@webflowandcode]

I agree!! Hope it helps