Picto thématique

Rule n° 93 - Email, URL, telephone number, search, password, and date and time input fields are assigned an appropriate input type.

In forms, you can specify what types of data are expected. This has many advantages. This allows mobile operating systems to display alternative keyboards or to verify that the data meets some form or syntax. In short, it ihas great value.

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Goal

  • Allow the use of virtual keyboards adapted to the different input modes on mobile devices.
  • Facilitate submission of the input data.
  • Improve compatibility with mobile terminals.

Implementation

Provide each input element concerned with a type attribute corresponding to the expected input: email, url, tel, number, search, password, date, time.

Control

Check, for each input element concerned, that there is a type attribute with the value corresponding to the type of input expected: email, url, tel, number, search, password, date, time.

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Business application and benefits

The rules should be applied to your projects from the design phase through to post-implementation , and they should be understood by all professionals with web and customer experience (CX) responsibilities: from strategy to operations, marketers to project managers, and editorial to technical staff. The benefits of using this ruleset are numerous, including improving customer satisfaction, web performance, and e-commerce, and expanding your client base, while also decreasing your errors and costs.

Multidisciplinary verticles - accessiiblity, SEO, e-commerce, ecodesign etc..- starting from the foundational Opquast base.

The objective of these rules and the Opquast community mission is ‘making the web better’ for your customers and for everyone! Opquast rules cover the key major areas of risk that can negatively affect website users such as privacy, ecodesign, accessibility and security.

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