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From: Jordan Wilson
Date: Jul 9, 2014 12:08PM

Greetings all,

I'm looking for more information regarding the common practice of wrapping the entire contents of a page in a <form> element on .NET projects, particularly to use ViewState. That seems like a detrimental practice both for standards based coding and for accessibility.

Are there standard workarounds to avoid using the <form> wrapper solution?
Is there information about how it adversely affects assistive technology users?

The best information I could find online was a random thread on a CMS forum:
http://devnet.kentico.com/forums/f67/t43834/necessary-usage-of-form-on-master-page

Any accessibility specific thoughts or experience with that would be useful. I'm not working on the backend team, but I want to make sure the backend team doesn't inject a form element wrapper and break our accessibility efforts.

Jordan Wilson
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