- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:46:14 -0400
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Patrick, It is worth it under two circumstances: 1> if your audience needs it and: 2> if it is found that some of the technology sugnificantly in use today either requires it or a sugnificanty number of its users require it. I do not know the answer to this, but I do know that there are many situations where unfortunately, I do not know what edit field is associated with what label and of course, if the site is developped propprly this should not happen, but if the words phone number were in the phone field, that could work. As for people needing to delete large numbers of characters, most of them can do this quite easily. I would say from personal knowledge that it should not be needed much but I have not the authority with which to speak beyond that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk> To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: RE: place-holding characters in edit/text boxes > I can at least attest that a space would probably not help. > In fact, what > worked was explicit text that said, "Type your information here." But again, that works on a technical level, but from a usability point of view it's dreadful, as users have to delete the lengthy placeholder text. Imagine a long form with 10-20 input fields, all with this type of placeholder text. Maybe this will make me sound discriminatory, but...is it worth accommodating for what is obviously a bug in very old (>6 years ?) technology at the detriment of usability for the majority of users ? Or maybe I'm just being polemic... Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk
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