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Re: Dropdown without visual label

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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 5, 2023 9:09AM

This is quite a common scenario. I regard it as a non-conformance for the same reason we regard the use of a placeholder as the label for a textbox to be a non-conformance. Once any data has been entered, the form control no longer has a visible label.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Subject: [WebAIM] Dropdown without visual label

Hi folks,

I have 2 dropdown where you can choose your Date of Birth with all the dropdown are having its first value as the label of the dropdown.
Example : Choose your birth day is the first dropdown list value for the Date dropdown.

Does this fail WCAG Labels or Instructions? Since I choose any value other than the first one which is the label then the dropdown will change to the chosen Date/Month/Year.

I appreciate your response!


Thank you.
Alyssa.