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Re: Default, place-holding characters

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From: Jean Watkins
Date: Feb 16, 2002 9:57AM

Also, what about a password field? Any default value given just shows up as *****. How would that appropriately get handled?

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----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Watkins
To: WebAIM accessibility forum
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Default, place-holding characters


This piece about the place-holding characters came up a little last week. If you include the place holders in a text field, the user then has to delete the default information out before placing their own information in to the field. This doesn't seem very helpful to me. In some cases, can I provide a value of " " or would that create a new problem? Doesn't the text preceding the field explain what is wanted in the field?

The guidelines also say that a radio button must be selected to satisfy this requirement. What if a user has to select either apples or oranges, but doesn't want either one? In some cases, I do not have a radio button selected because the user may not want anything in that catego