Noted that in Firefox no iA2 placeholder attribute is exposed for elements with a placeholder HTML attribute, but is exposed for aria-placeholder. This means that unless the developer doubles up placeholder and aria-placeholder then the HTML placeholder text is not announced by SR's. Also note it is (HTML paceholder) exposed correctly in chrome and thus works as expected. test case: https://s.codepen.io/stevef/debug/exjvgW Suggest this needs fixing pronto :-)
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Noted that in Firefox no iA2 placeholder attribute is exposed for elements with a placeholder HTML attribute, but is exposed for aria-placeholder. This means that unless the developer doubles up placeholder and aria-placeholder then the HTML placeholder text is not announced by SR's. Also note it is (HTML placeholder) exposed correctly in chrome and thus works as expected. test case: https://s.codepen.io/stevef/debug/exjvgW Suggest this needs fixing pronto :-)
Noted that in Firefox no iA2 placeholder attribute is exposed for elements with a placeholder HTML attribute, but is exposed for aria-placeholder. This means that unless the developer doubles up placeholder and aria-placeholder then the HTML placeholder text is not announced by SR's. Also note it is (HTML placeholder) exposed correctly in chrome and thus works as expected. test case: https://s.codepen.io/stevef/debug/exjvgW Suggest this needs fixing pronto :-) Also note that in chrome's implementation HTML placeholder overrides aria-placeholder value,when both are present, which I think is correct?