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Hourglass press theme for OLH
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Differentiate placeholder and aria labels for text input fields #356

Open StephDriver opened 3 months ago

StephDriver commented 3 months ago

from # 329


The placeholder and the aria label are identical but they serve different purposes. For example in the input for email signup for the news letter:

<input class="
        bg-blue border-white
        text-white cursor-white placeholder:text-white
        max-lg:placeholder:text-md lg:placeholder:text-lg
        max-lg:text-md lg:text-lg
        border-t-0 border-r-0 border-b-1 border-l-0
        focus:outline focus:outline-white focus:outline-offset-0
        focus:ring-transparent focus:border-b-transparent" 
    id="email" 
    type="email" 
    name="EMAIL" 
    value="" 
    aria-label="Your email" 
    placeholder="Your email">

The aria-label should identify that this is input is for an email address for signing up for the newsletter and the placeholder may be better as an example of an email address.