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From: Francesco Mammetti
Date: Thu, Dec 15 2022 1:29AM
Subject: Text Box Area
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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
From: glen walker
Date: Thu, Dec 15 2022 1:42PM
Subject: Re: Text Box Area
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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 ADDRESS 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
> > > > >
From: Francesco Mammetti
Date: Fri, Dec 16 2022 12:32AM
Subject: Re: Text Box Area
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I also insert a low fidelity wireframe