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Re: place-holding characters in edit/text boxes

From: <tina@greytower.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:48:56 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <200309061649.h86Gmxr13212@localhost.localdomain>
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org 

On  7 Sep, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

> Aha. We did some testing at Sidar and discovered that Outspoken (the 
> only screen reader for the Mac) also has this problem. Which was 
> important, because at least one of our people (who was doing the 
> testing for a project) uses this as his everyday platform.

  Should we understand this to mean that Outspoken, a piece of assistive
  technology in use today, has a problem with form controls that does
  not have default (place holding) values ?

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