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

<input type="text" name="email">

Why it matters

People with motor or cognitive disabilities who rely on browser autofill for personal data.

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

The field must carry the correct, valid autocomplete token (code telling browsers what the field collects) for its purpose so browsers and assistive tools can identify and autofill it.

<input type="text" name="email" autocomplete="email">

autocomplete lets browsers and AT identify common input purposes and offer autofill support.

Outcome

On a job board's application form, this barrier is gone for people with motor or cognitive disabilities who rely on browser autofill for personal data — they can finish what they came here to do.

Who is affected