[Bug 16774] New: placeholder name calculation

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16774

           Summary: placeholder name calculation
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML a11y APIs (editor: Steve Faulkner, Cynthia
                    Shelly)
        AssignedTo: faulkner.steve@gmail.com
        ReportedBy: faulkner.steve@gmail.com
         QAContact: sideshowbarker+html-a11y-api@gmail.com
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-bugzilla@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Ref: HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html
For accessible name / description calculation under 5.1 Input type="text" or
textarea element the suggested order is aria-labelledby, aria-label,
placeholder, then the host language's placeholder, label element and title
attributes
Comment-1:
The INPUT type=text / textarea are host language constructs. So I find it odd
that aria-attributes should take precedence unless there is a role attribute
that is present that changes the role declared by the host language. 
Comment-2:
Having stated the above order of precedence, it goes on to say that when only
placeholder and label are present, the label takes precedence and should be
considered to calculate accessible name.
Then why does placeholder precede label element in the above order beginning
with aria attributes?

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Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 13:33:39 UTC