- From: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 08:22:27 -0400
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@levelaccess.com>, Adam Cooper <cooperad@bigpond.com>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
The HTML spec cannot be clearer and more explicit when it says: "The placeholder attribute represents a short hint (a word or short phrase) intended to aid the user with data entry when the control has no value. ... The placeholder attribute should not be used as an alternative to a label." The accessibility naming rules list attributes by order of preference. The items that occur later in the list are less preferred and simply meant as a fallback for AT users to help their users when good markup is absent. Developers tasked with making content accessible should not ordinarily delve into the depths of the accessible name computation algorithm and rely on less preferred fallback mechanisms to compute a name for an element. Thanks, -- Sailesh Panchang Customer Success Strategist and Principal Accessibility Consultant Deque Systems Inc 381 Elden Street, Suite 2000, Herndon, VA 20170 Mobile: 571-344-1765
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