• Success Criterion 1.3.5
  • Conformance level AA

Personal-Data Field With No Autocomplete Attribute at All

1.3.5 — Identify Input Purpose

Scenario

Setting

A job board's application form

What’s wrong

autocomplete omitted entirely on fields collecting the user's own info from the Input Purposes list (name, email, tel, address, cc-number…).

Example 

<label for="phone">Phone Number</label>
<input id="phone" name="phone" type="tel">

Why it matters

An applicant filling out yet another job application has to retype their phone number instead of it filling in automatically, adding friction to a long form.

How to test

Inspect every field collecting personal info (name, email, phone, address, card) in DevTools: any missing an autocomplete attribute entirely fails.

How to fix

Add the matching autocomplete token to every field that collects a listed personal data type, even when the field type already seems obvious.

<label for="phone">Phone Number</label>
<input id="phone" name="phone" type="tel" autocomplete="tel">

Outcome

An applicant's phone number now autofills instantly, saving a manual retype on a long application.

Who is affected

Users with motor or cognitive disabilities who rely on autofill to complete forms accurately face extra manual typing and higher error risk.

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