Re: Placeholder attribute an accessible name?

I can speak   for no one's accommodation needs but my own.
Still, in the one place where I find placeholders regularly, their 
presence is most helpful.
i work in a low to medium graphics environment, with browsers incorporating 
a  solid search feature.
Yelp is the site where I most often find an alt tag spoken as
"this is a placeholder."
And, at least for my environment, it lands just before important links or 
data.
So I can, more often than not, search for the word "placeholder," in my 
browsers reaching the screen area i desire.
My browsers provide numbers  for links and things, adding to the 
advantage, because finding the placeholder lets me find the number content 
and moving forward.
That is me however,
Karen




On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> On 20/10/2022 15:32, Brooks Newton wrote:
>>  I'd fail a placeholder that disappears on focus or on input every time
>>  under SC 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions (A).  To pass this Success
>>  Criterion, "Labels or instructions are provided when content requires user
>>  input."
>>
>>  Notice the rule doesn't say "labels or instructions are provided, except
>>  that they are allowed to disappear from the screen when users need them
>>  the most - when they're filling out a form input."
>>
>>  To me, that's pretty straightforward.
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> Sure, but the question was about accessible name (i.e. 4.1.2 Name, Role, 
> Value)
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