Re: Firefox Accessibility Inspector reports placeholder attribute as eligible for accessible name

Should this be exposed by the browser to the accessibility API as "foo" or not, if there's nothing else giving the input a programmatic name?

It should. But it violates WCAG requirement for VISIBLE label for input, so it is an authoring error, too.

For the record, there isn’t enough information to say whether this is a violation of WCAG. This certainly meets 4.1.2 (Name Role Value) but there isn’t enough information to say whether it also meets 2.4.6 (Headings and labels).

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