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 confuse some users
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Andreas Boehmer wrote:
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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. However, there are reasons why these tests ask for default place-holders, which I do not want to plainly ignore, just because they have been requested by Bobby.
2. what do you mean by "password place-holder" ?
If I put a default place-holder into a form field with the type="password", it obviously appears as "***********". That's the bit I would like to avoid, yet for accessibility reasons it may be required to provide it.
There's a discussion going on whether default place-holders are really necessary or not. Appearantly there are some browsers or assistive technologies that do not find form elements if they don't have a default text in them.
Neerav Bhatt
Andreas Boehmer wrote:
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 something like this:
Username: Enter username Password: ************
The password place-holder looks pretty useless and confusing to me. Most users will plain wonder what that is supposed to do, it's not
really helpful
at all.
So I'd love to hear your opinions on this one? Shall I enter
them just to
pass the accessibility tests, or leave them out for (in my
opinion) better
usability? Being so close to AAA and not reaching it is frustrating.
Thanks!
Andreas.
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