Re: Placeholder attribute an accessible name?

On 22/10/2022 14:19, John Foliot wrote:
> Sailesh writes:
> 
>      > 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.

The question isn't though if developers should or shouldn't. It's 
whether or not the behaviour of browsers to use the fallback (documented 
in the accessible name computation algorithm) to expose an accessible 
name counts as passing 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value. Nominally, I'd say it 
does. Whether it's good or bad practice is a separate discussion.

P
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