Hey James. On 04/29/2015 07:34 AM, James Teh wrote:
> Pardon my lack of awareness here; I'm coming into this discussion cold > and am not part of the W3C working groups. Feel free to point me at a > thread or something. I'm curious as to why placeholder shouldn't be > exposed as the description by UAs. It's possible to have a name and description and placeholder. Beyond that, because the placeholder is the displayed text when the input element lacks a value, an AT might wish to present the placeholder only when there is not a value. In other words, provide the same experience sighted users have. In order to do that, the AT needs to know it's a placeholder. Exposing it as the description -- without also exposing it as the placeholder -- prevents ATs from being able to do that. --joanie _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
