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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Feb 18, 2020 10:52PM

One tip. I have seen some edit fields which do show the max length as a description to the screen reader. The issue I have seen is when you type, the number of chars remaining increases. Thus the screen reader gets interrupted. Not a good experiences or I would say is accessible.


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Hi,



I was having a discussion with a colleague about this and we didn't have a good answer.



Suppose there is an edit field in a web form. The field has a maximum length of 20.



Should there be some indication that the user has reached the maximum length, or that at least there is a maximum length?



If some indication should be provided, what is the best mechanism for the nnotification, and which WCAG 2.1 criteria does it reference?



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