Re: Placeholder behavior

Thanks Steve. I do recall that at one point the name computation algorithm explicitly listed 'placeholder'  at about the same level as the title I think. But just before sending that last email, I noted the placeholder is no longer listed explicitly in 5.2.7. So does it still serve as an accessible name?  
Ref http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles
 And the point I am making is JAWS / NVDA do pick it up even when the placeholder is not visible  ... after data is entered. 
Regards,
Sailesh

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On Mon, 10/6/14, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Placeholder behavior
 To: "Sailesh Panchang" <spanchang02@yahoo.com>
 Cc: "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
 Date: Monday, October 6, 2014, 3:28 PM
 
 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
 --
 
 Regards
 
 SteveF
 HTML
 5.1
 
 
 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

Received on Monday, 6 October 2014 20:01:15 UTC