Is it really necessary for accessibility to "include default
place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas" per WCAG 1.0
Checkpoint 10.4? Is that an obsolete guideline?
10.4 *Until user agents* handle empty controls correctly, include
default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas. [Priority 3]
For example, in HTML, do this for TEXTAREA and INPUT.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-place-holders
Have we reached (or largely reached) the "until user agents" stage yet?
What implications is ignoring this guideline likely to have (other than
not getting "tick marks" from various automated tools), given I use
properly coded labels and (where needed) fieldsets for the inputs?
It seems crazy to repeat the label text (or slightly amended info) in
the input for people to overwrite (and some will perhaps leave it in there!)
Regards
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Bert Doorn, Better Web Design
http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/
Fast-loading, user-friendly websites
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