I ran a usability evaluation last week where some (few) of the form elements had place-holding text and others didn't.
This caused problems as you might expect as users scanned over those fields thinking that as they were already populated, they were therefore optional. Of course they were mandatory and caused validation errors. This was more an issue of inconsistent design, though it does illustrate possible usability/accessibility issues. Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan O'Donnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 November 2005 11:55 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders Leaving it there can be a problem. I have seen a demonstration (at a Melbourne WSG meeting, no less) where the agent placed the cursor at the end of the place-holding text without reading it. There is a real danger that the user will enter text without knowing that the place-holding text is there. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
