This document:Public document·View comments·Disposition of Comments·
Nearby:Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Other specs in this tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group's Issue tracker
Quick access to LC-2943 LC-2944 LC-2949
Next: LC-2949
Summary of Issue: Does placeholder text in form fields need to meet 1.4.3? Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change): We are having a debate (within Deque and with a client) on the color contrast of placeholder text. The default color of placeholder text in browsers does not meet the 4.5 to 1 color contrast requirement. At Deque, we consider placeholder text to be instructions (valuable information) and so we have been calling a violation on placeholder text that isn't 4.5 to 1 (assuming it isn't large). I see a great article by Steve Faulkner on this very subject at http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2011/02/html5-accessibility-chops-the-placeholder-attribute/ Now, the big question is, what do you say? Is color contrast of 4.5 to 1 required on regular size placeholder text to meet WCAG 2.0 SC 1.4.3? Proposed Change: Whatever you decide, could you add some notes to http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20140408/G148 so that in the future we will have more than just this question/answer to refer to? Merci!