form control name
What assistive technology announces for an input: a label element pointing at its id, a wrapping label, aria-label, aria-labelledby, or a title.
What form control name does not show
A placeholder is not a name; it disappears on the first keystroke and is not announced as the field's purpose.
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Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about form control name
What is form control name?
What assistive technology announces for an input: a label element pointing at its id, a wrapping label, aria-label, aria-labelledby, or a title.
What does form control name not show or guarantee?
A placeholder is not a name; it disappears on the first keystroke and is not announced as the field's purpose.
Which area of the glossary does form control name belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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