- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 21:46:39 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
On 07/08/2018 21:37, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: ... > The reason why placeholder is not advisable as a sole labelling > mechanism is because it has usability and accessibility (e.g. for COGA) > issues. But is that a reason not to have browsers expose it? Should they > expose it only if there's another accessible name, and just as an > accessible description? Or not at all? For that matter, I could make an input with just, say, aria-label, and that gets exposed as the accessible name...e.g. just <input aria-label="foo"> Should this be exposed by the browser to the accessibility API as "foo" or not, if there's nothing else giving the input a programmatic name? P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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