- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:12:47 +0100
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: Jason Kiss <jason@accessibleculture.org>, Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>
Hi all, I am concerned about the (accessibility) implementation of placeholder in browsers, we now have a number of browsers that use the placeholder string in the accessible name calculation, but there are differences in when the placeholder content is exposed depending upon the other sources available for the accessible name.[1] This leads to a situation where developers cannot rely upon the information in the placeholder being exposed to users across browsers and platforms. i.e. its an interoperability issue. what i suggest we need to do is look at the current implementations and work out which is the most desirable and see if we can get browser implementers to converge on that. any thoughts? [1] http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/placeholder-labelling.html -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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