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Re: Edit Box Brain Freeze

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From: Isabel Holdsworth
Date: Sep 18, 2018 5:19AM

Sadly I agree. Could you make it a recommendation and ask them to use
a placeholder attribute instead? I usually add a recommendations
section at the end of my reports, saying that although these issues
aren't technically WCAG fails, they are likely to present serious
barriers for some users blah blah blah.

On 17/09/2018, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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