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Re: Placeholder instead of explicit label?
From: Angela French
Date: Jan 5, 2015 9:44AM
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I am a sighted person who has long rallied against placeholder text for all the reasons illustrated in theNNGroup article.
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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 7:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Placeholder instead of explicit label?
Greetings:
Here are a couple of articles about placeholders that you may find helpful:
Placeholder Attribute Is Not A Label! Web Axe
:
http://www.webaxe.org/placeholder-attribute-is-not-a-label/
and
Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/
Jennifer
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