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From: Jim Homme
Date: Sep 17, 2018 12:17PM

Hi,
I have not seen this for a while. I want to fail this, but maybe cannot. We have an edit box. It has a meaningful label. When focus goes onto the edit box, the box contains a default value. If you type characters, the default value disappears. If you press arrows or other navigation keys, the default value stays there, but is now unselected. This could cause the user to enter something else and accidentally keep the default value. Which success criterion does this fail?

Thanks.

Jim



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Jim Homme
Product Manager
Digital Accessibility
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