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From: glen walker
Date: Dec 15, 2022 1:42PM

This sounds like a discussion between what's required by WCAG vs what's
required for a good user experience.

I'm not sure I followed the entire scenario but it sounds like the text box
is essentially a "document" with the labels and placeholders inside the
document as plain text and then you type your responses next to each
label. If so, that could be a 4.1.2 issue since each field doesn't have a
name/label that can be programmatically determined.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 1:29 AM Francesco Mammetti < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> hi, I'm doing a review regarding the Italian public administration.
> They are using text area boxes with a placeholder text that remains fixed
> and should be deleted if necessary, but if you want there are parts marked
> with (....) where the user must enter basic information, such as name, date
> of birth, all within a text box, in my opinion this behavior is not
> accessible because the placeholder must be deleted in whole or in part in
> case you want to use only one piece, and therefore for those with motor
> problems it is not easy and for those use the screen reader, the parts to
> fill in the placeholder text do not go into focus and this is really
> problematic.
> The answer to these observations says that the wcag does not give
> indications for the text area box and therefore they can do as they wish,
> I wanted your opinion.
>
> Regards Francesco
> > > > >