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A placeholder is not a label

• This is your regular reminder from HTMHell that <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> is not accessible and requires an associated <label>. Some screen readers will fall back to using the placeholder if a label is missing, but it can’t be relied upon.
• There are various UI issues with a placeholder-only approach. Contrast is often too low to read the text easily (though this can be tweaked by styling with the ::placeholder rule, at the risk of making the user think the input is already filled in). Placeholders get cut off if the input is too small, and get removed as soon as you start typing, straining your short term memory.

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