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Non-Compliant Example:
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Acceptance Criteria
Don’t place characters, such as dashes “-----” or parenthesis ”( )” in the placeholder.
Those characters will be announced by the screen reader as follows:
“dash, dash, dash, dash, dash” and “close parent, open parent”
Provide form instructions either above or below the form controlIt’s important to provide screen reader and keyboard only users with a mechanism to initiate a change in page behavior.
For example if typing information in a form field or selecting an item within a drop down menu will trigger a sudden and unexpected change to the page.
This can be confusing and disorienting to screen reader and keyboard only users.
As a screen reader and keyboard only user I should:
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