On 2015-04-29 7:48 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
I support the idea that the browser should find a best match for
accessible name and description. Btw, current version of HTML a11y
spec agrees on it [1]. After all there's backward compatibility issue
If placeholder is exposed leaving accessible name blank.
[1]
http://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#input-type-text-input-type-password-input-type-search-input-type-tel-input-type-email-input-type-url-and-textarea-element-accessible-name-calculation
That's not backward compatible with the GNOME desktop (GTK+), where
placeholder text is not mapped to an empty accessible name. Thus, there
is now a mismatch between desktop widgets and widgets within a web page,
on one desktop.
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