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Re: Hidden text more robust than title?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 14, 2017 1:48PM

> It becomes a problem when we use it for a text input in place of an accessible name.

The title attribute can be used as the accessible name for an input as long as it's accessibility supported. It has been very well support historically but I haven't confirmed its support on mobile recently.

The accessible name calculation can be found here:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam-1.0/#input-type-text-input-type-password-input-type-search-input-type-tel-input-type-url-and-textarea-element

It would not however serve as a visible label for an input that was not otherwise labelled because it is only available on mouse hover in most browsers.

Jonathan

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