README

Purpose

This extension is more or less an accessibility boost for EXT:powermail. Therefor the form templating is adjusted, additional supportive fields are added etc.

Features

• Adds the following fields to EXT:powermail model:Field
  • autocomplete: selection of autocomplete possibilities for the corresponding fields
  • hideLabel: checkbox to hide the label, by keeping the possibility of addition css
• Templating
  • improves accessibility in forms by
    • refactoring label rendering
    • adding description rendering
    • refactoring field rendering for
      • checkboxes
      • date inputs
      • regular inputs
      • passwords
      • radio buttons
      • reset buttons
      • submit buttons
      • textarea fields
• backend cleanup
  • removing fields, that I personally don't use, with a specific tsconfig setting
• Report barrier configuration
  • prefill for the following fields:
    • subject: rename powermail marker to "barrier_subject"
    • message: rename powermail marker to "barrier_message"

Known bugs

• field: date | aria-describedby attribute gets removed after focussing out

Client side validation

At the moment EXT:powermail client side (javascript) validation is disabled. This has to be extended as followed:

• adding an icon to the messages
• adjust field labelling setup to read the error as well