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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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 7:32 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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
>
> > > messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > > >