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Re: Placeholder text contrast

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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Mar 20, 2015 2:12PM

A number of times I have seen this sort of response to questions about making placeholder text work better: "In our website, we did away with it because [some percentage] of the responses left the placeholder text in place, and bad data is worse than no data. Do you know what that percentage is for your site?"

I don't recall ever seeing a response to that question—especially not an answer of, "We've tested that, and it never happens."

It seems like your group is doing some serious testing, Jesse. Is there any condition under which the form is never submitted with the placeholder text left in place?

If not, what is that error rate? And what is the impact to the customer's experience of your website?

Cliff Tyllick


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> On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> There are additional issues regarding placeholder that relate to current Accessibility API mappings that are having a significant
> impact on accessibility for AT users at present as well, which I've already brought up recently at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2015Mar/0116.html
> Which might be helpful to be aware of.
>
>