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Re: Placeholder and Accessible Name Computation

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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: May 8, 2019 2:44PM

True! And I agree that on its own (without visible label or floating label) ir would fail 3.3.2 (as Patrick also pointed out). Was just trying to understand the mismatch between the accname spec and the HTML API spec - which @jnurthen on twitter has cleared up by pointing to https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues/17

> Whether it counts as an accessible name under SC 4.1.2 is a different question from SC 3.3.2 which is aimed at visual labels and instructions that are present to all users.
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