RE: placeholder part of accessible name calculation?

• From: Jan Hellbusch <jan@hellbusch.de>
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:32:48 +0200
• To: "'Marc Haunschild'" <haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000201d65e67$f889a120$e99ce360$@hellbusch.de>

Hi Marc,

> So is there anywhere specified if placeholder has to be considered for
> calculating the accessible names of form inputs - or not?
According to HTML-AMM
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam-1.0/#input-type-text-input-type-password-input-type-search-input-type-tel-input-type-email-input-type-url-and-textarea-element-accessible-name-computation

a placeholder can be used to calculate an accessible name. I'm not sure whether that works in all screen readers/browsers, though.

You would also have to consider success criterion 3.3.2.

Jan

Received on Monday, 20 July 2020 07:33:03 UTC