On 4 April 2015 at 20:07, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote: > If it were possible to show that 5560 examples across the web used the > following syntax: > > > > <div role=”checkbox” aria-selected=”true”></div> > > > > Would we have to say in the spec that this is a valid use of the checkbox > role and it’s supporting state by getting browsers to map aria-selected to > checkbox? > Hi Bryan, the analogy does not make sense. The examples provided are a random sample of usage from approx 80,000 web sites. What I am trying to illustrate is that how placeholder content is used in accessible name calculation needs to take into account how placeholder is used in web sites, in the wild, not how we wish it would be used. -- Regards SteveF HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
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