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Re: Placeholder and Accessible Name Computation

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 8, 2019 1:50PM

On 08/05/2019 20:34, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> I am generally opposed to the placeholder being used as the accessible name because I believe it will lead to the sole use of it as an accepted way of providing a name rather than a fallback. The placeholder should not act as a label and should act as a hint. By including it in the name it encourages it's acceptance as a label rather than a placeholder. It's called placeholder for a reason and not a label.

For what it's worth, an input relying purely on placeholder will still
fail "Labels and Instructions" (because once filled in there's no more
"label or instruction" there at all) and arguably "Label in Name"
(again, once filled in, it has no apparent label but just its entered
value, and that's not part of the accessible name).

P
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