Re: Placeholder behavior

hi sailesh,

although placeholder should not be used as a label it sometimes is. For the
purpose of accessible name calculation in browsers placeholder is used as a
fallback accessible name in accessibility APIs when other names sources are
not provided.

here are some results of browser testing from late last year
http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/placeholder-labelling.html

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Regards

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

On 6 October 2014 20:08, Sailesh Panchang <spanchang02@yahoo.com> wrote:

> JAWS 14/15 and NVDA  read the placeholder label even after entering text
> into the text field  in Firefox32 and IE11. VoiceOver in Ios 7 does not do
> so.
> So for instance in the following code, the placeholder "Account number:"
> though not visible, is announced by JAWS and NVDA even when some text is
> present in the field.
> <p><input type="text" placeholder="Account Number:" size="7" /></p>
> (Note: There is no text  outside the input element that funtcions  like a
> label).
> NVDA does not read it  when arrowing through the content (i.e. out of
> forms mode) when there's data in the field.
> HTML5 specs clearly states using placeholder as a label poses
> accessibility problems.
> But thought I'll note this interesting behavior with screen readers.
> Sailesh
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