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Re: Edit Box Brain Freeze

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From: glen walker
Date: Sep 17, 2018 1:08PM

To me this just falls under a bad UX for everyone and not specific to
accessibility.

Glen

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:17 PM Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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