Principle 3 Understandable · Guideline 3.3: Input Assistance
3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
Input fields need labels.
What this means in practice
Placeholder text is not a label: it disappears on typing, usually has poor contrast, and some screen readers ignore it. A real label stays visible.
What Wave Access contributes
Wave Access ergänzt fehlende Beschriftungen aus Platzhalter, Titel oder Feldname – aber nur, wenn kein echtes Label vorhanden ist.
Normative wording
The binding text lives at the W3C. What you read here is our own faithful rendering – not a quotation.