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Add aria-placeholder for combobox role#2726

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@FabasoftAccessibility FabasoftAccessibility commented Feb 5, 2026

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Closes #2689

Add aria-placeholder as a property of the combobox.

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<li><pref>aria-errormessage</pref></li>
<li><pref>aria-haspopup</pref></li>
<li><sref>aria-invalid</sref></li>
<li><sref>aria-placeholder</sref></li>
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per my comments in the issue that prompted this PR, does just adding the attribute without any caveats about usage make sense?

i still don't see the practical use here (nor is there support) for a select-only combobox that isn't based on a text input field

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+1, I think adding this should be coupled with something in (probably) Core AAM on how it's handled when the aria-placeholder string matches the current text content, which is how I assume a select-only-combobox's placeholder would be actually authored to render.

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Missing availability of aria-placeholder property with combobox role

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