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Re: Placeholder instead of explicit label?

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jan 5, 2015 8:19AM

2015-01-05, 17:08, Lynn Holdsworth wrote:

> Is using a PLACEHOLDER attribute instead of a <label> tag enough to
> satisfy WCAG2?

No. Even the HTML5 spefication, which defines the attribute, expresses
rather strongly that it should not be used as a replacement for a label.

> I know that using a TITLE attribute is a sufficient
> technique,

It isn’t. The great majority of users will not perceive anything in the
TITLE attribute, unless they mouse over the field.

Yucca