Fix · Moderate · should fix soon
How to fix: missing autocomplete attributes
Browsers cannot autofill names, addresses, or payment fields. Helps users with cognitive and motor disabilities; also speeds up forms.
- WCAG references
- 1.3.5
- Severity
- Moderate
What it looks like in the wild
Browsers cannot autofill names, addresses, or payment fields.
The screen-reader user, keyboard user, or low-vision user encountering this issue does not get an error message. The page just stops working for them. Which is why this kind of bug rarely shows up in your error tracker; it shows up in support tickets, lawsuits, and abandoned conversions.
Why it fails WCAG
Helps users with cognitive and motor disabilities; also speeds up forms.
Map this back to 1.3.5 when you log the bug. Auditors and procurement teams expect that mapping; "broken" is not enough context.
The wrong pattern (avoid)
<input id="ln" type="text">The right pattern (copy this)
<input id="ln" type="text" autocomplete="family-name">Related fixes
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