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Re: Placeholder instead of explicit label?

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From: Lynn Holdsworth
Date: Jan 5, 2015 10:29AM

Thanks very much everyone. Looks like we're all on the same page.

I don't like seeing either a title or placeholder as a label
replacement, so knowing where I can fail either is great news for me -
if not for the developers of the site I'm auditing.

But there's definitely a school of thought that says title is
sufficient where the design can't accommodate an explicit, visible
label. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks again, Lynn

On 05/01/2015, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I am a sighted person who has long rallied against placeholder text for all
> the reasons illustrated in theNNGroup article.
>
>