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Making forms accessible isn’t something hard to do, but most times, it gets overlooked as developers pay more attention to parts that get noticed by users who can see visual changes. But then again, there are users out there who rely on assistive technologies and accessible forms help them tremendously in completing their tasks without unnecessary hitches.

A while back, while working on an intranet that displayed the amount of cash flow, we (design team) had to come up with a way to show data graphically. As the graphs we wanted were rather simple bar charts, we did not want to expend too much energy in researching extra tools in achieving this goal. With a little creative trick using absolute positioning, out came the bar chart with negative axis. Check out the code below to create the effect.