E-mail List Archives

Search E-mail List Archives for

Number of posts in this thread: 2 (In chronological order)

From: allyssa jessicon
Date: Wed, Apr 05 2023 7:14AM
Subject: Dropdown without visual label
No previous message | Next message →

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.

From: Steve Green
Date: Wed, Apr 05 2023 9:09AM
Subject: Re: Dropdown without visual label
← Previous message | No next message

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