We were using custom Javascript to fill in the placeholder text in empty text fields and clear it away when the user tabbed into it.
Ghada's patch switches us to using the HTML5 standard "placeholder" attribute, which works in all of our supported browsers: http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-placeholder ** Also affects: mahara/15.04 Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: mahara/16.10 Importance: Medium Assignee: Ghada El-Zoghbi (ghada-z) Status: In Progress ** Also affects: mahara/15.10 Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: mahara/16.04 Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Search text Placeholder + Accessibility: Search text Placeholder goes away after tabbing into field ** Changed in: mahara/16.10 Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Changed in: mahara/16.04 Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: mahara/15.10 Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: mahara/15.04 Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: mahara/16.04 Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mahara/15.10 Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mahara/15.04 Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: mahara/16.04 Milestone: None => 16.04.3 ** Changed in: mahara/15.10 Milestone: None => 15.10.5 ** Changed in: mahara/15.04 Milestone: None => 15.04.9 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605067 Title: Accessibility: Search text Placeholder goes away after tabbing into field Status in Mahara: Fix Committed Status in Mahara 15.04 series: In Progress Status in Mahara 15.10 series: In Progress Status in Mahara 16.04 series: In Progress Status in Mahara 16.10 series: Fix Committed Bug description: Mahara: 16.04.2 DB: Postgres Browser: Firefox OS: Linux The place holder text 'Search' in the site search field is removed after the user first tabs into the field. It is left empty thereafter. For accessibility, the 'Search' text should be replaced again after the user tabs out of the field and they have not entered any text. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1605067/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
