Re: Issues with HTML5 placeholder and related Accessibility API mappings

On 20 March 2015 at 22:52, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com
> wrote:

> This issue occurs within HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0, in section
> 5.1,


placeholder rank in this is based on observed browser behaviour and the
concept derived from the ARIA accessible name calculation algorithm that
title (referred to in language agnostic terms as 'tooltip attribute') [1]
is always the accessible name source of last resort

Note that the use of placeholder for accessible name calculation is a
repair mechanism, it's used when there is no better source for accessible
name.

[1] http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/accname-aam/accname-aam.html#step2H


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Regards

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