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Re: Edit Box Brain Freeze

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From: Meacham, Steve - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Sep 18, 2018 5:35AM

When the WCAG failed to anticipate a scenario in a success criteria, I often cite a principle or guideline.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Isabel Holdsworth
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Edit Box Brain Freeze

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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