Re: Text entry box with a single underline...

I've also seen this design pattern recently.  As a customer of Southwest
Airlines, when I click on the search icon (small magnifying glass in top
right corner of www.southwest.com)....the search field that is shown is not
a box...but a yellow underline with a label above, placeholder text and a
search icon button.

I'm under the impression that usability has been conducted on this design
pattern with real humans...and that it has been favorable.

I agree this could be a problem for cognitive users and could be addressed
in the coga extension.

Glenda

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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

> > My gut feeling here would be that the styling will potentially be a
> problem for all sighted users, and not specifically an accessibility
> problem - so a general usability, rather than accessibility, problem.
>
> My internal feeling is that this is a bigger issue for people with low
> vision and cognitive disabilities and is likely an accessibility issue.
> GoFundMe has this issue in Chrome -- they had no borders on the input
> fields at all -- in IE there are borders.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:19 AM
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Text entry box with a single underline...
>
> On 25/05/2016 11:45, Alistair Garrison wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I've been asked a question about text entry box styling, but I thought
> I'd also try and gain some wider input.
> >
> > If effect, the developer wants to use a text entry box.  In isolation,
> the background in the text entry box is black, the view it sits in is
> black, and the box only has a single red border running along the bottom.
> The label is above the box.
> >
> > In my opinion, the created text entry area is difficult for all users to
> immediately perceive as a text entry area; simple not seeing it as a text
> entry area.  In this configuration I've been thinking that 1.4.1 Use of
> Color would be failed, due to the single red line being used as the only
> indication that it is a text entry area, but surely there must be further
> Success Criteria that are failed?
> >
> > The developers have offered-up putting placeholder text in the box, but
> to my mind this looks like an underlined heading - which again isn't great.
> >
> > The developers are indicating that this design pattern is becoming more
> and more common.
> >
> > The question is then - are there any SC's or Failure Conditions I have
> missed that would rule out styling a text area in this manner?  If not,
> should there be?
>
> My gut feeling here would be that the styling will potentially be a
> problem for all sighted users, and not specifically an accessibility
> problem - so a general usability, rather than accessibility, problem.
>
> Though it could be argued that certain user groups with cognitive
> disabilities may be more affected (I'm saying that without any evidence,
> empirical or otherwise, so take it with a pinch of salt).
>
> P
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