Re: [REVIEW REQUESTED][ARIA] placeholder from Steve Faulkner on 2015-04-07 (public-pfwg@w3.org from April 2015)

From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 09:03:15 +0100
To: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
Cc: Matthew King <mattking@us.ibm.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <public-pfwg@w3.org>, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+ri+VnrT37f1iDBn8E43rrmGmuV0PtUOKX3mGJjG19oUSgUCg@mail.gmail.com>

On 6 April 2015 at 18:30, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
wrote:

> I still don’t understand why it makes sense for placeholder to have
> greater priority in the naming calculation than title, because if you have
> a form field that has both a placeholder and a title on it, the browser now
> automatically chooses placeholder as the accessible name.

This can of course change, but what we need to do is look at how
placeholder and title are used in conjunction. If it can be shown that it
makes more sense to use title before placeholder as a fallback acc name,
then we can modify the spec and ask browser implementers to modify existing
implementations.

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2015 08:04:22 UTC