with find form place holders an irritant.
Roger
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Hi Andreas
Hi Andreas,
not sure about the article, but we do recommend to our clients that they
not use default place holding cahracters.
from what i have read on the various accessibility lists, it appears that
it is pretty safe to say that the checkpoint is no longer relevant.
but i may be
I honestly don't know which UA's have problems with inputs without
default text, but futher discussion of the WACG 1.0 until user
agents.. rules can be found at
http://www.juicystudio.com/tutorial/accessibility/interimsolutions.asp
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Hi guys,
I have got a website (www.jet.org.au) that passes Bobby almost with AAA,
with the exception of the default place holders. The reason I do not want to
put them into the site is because every page has got a login form at the
top. With the default place-holders, the login form would look
Andreas
1. You may want to research the pros and cons of automated accessibility
testing
2. what do you mean by password place-holder ?
Neerav Bhatt
http://www.bhatt.id.au
Web Development IT consultancy
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1. You may want to research the pros and cons of automated accessibility
testing
I completely agree that automated accessibility tests are not efficient
enough to rate a website accessible.
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Right, Now I understand
The guidelines say all form elements need to have default text inside
them, but a form field with the type=password always renders as *
regardless of the content
I think commonsense should prevail and you should leave the password
field empty, otherwise you will
Place holder text is only required for textarea and text input:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#forms-specific.
The reasons are: it makes it easier to tab through inputs without having
to read/hear the entire form, and; some assistive technologies can't
find form's properly without it.
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Place holder text is only required for textarea and text input:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#forms-specific.
The reasons are: it makes it easier to tab through inputs without
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