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Re: Placeholder and Accessible Name Computation

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From: Steve Green
Date: May 8, 2019 2:38PM

There are documents called "HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0" on GitHub and on the W3C website, but their content is different. The latter is called a Working Draft and appears to be the authoritative version at this time (the accessible name computation also aligns with the Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1). The version on GitHub is called an Editor's Draft and I assume it will become the authoritative version and be migrated to the W3C website at some point.

If I am correct, the "placeholder" attribute is not currently included in the accessible name computation, but it will be in the future.

Steve