Android accessibility in edit text with hint

android android-edittext accessibility hint
Damir picture Damir · Oct 7, 2013 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I have edittext for entering first name when creating account and its hint is "Jane"(as first name). I also want to have content description on this edittext for accessibility saying "first name". When I set both hint and content description warning pops up "Do not set both contentDescription and hint: the contentDescription will mask the hint" and this is fine, it's just that content description doesn't mask hint. When I turn on TalkBack it still reads hint and not content description.

Could anyone help me with this. Thnx.

Answer

Hans Hohenfeld picture Hans Hohenfeld · Oct 7, 2013

From what I understand, android:hint is meant as a placeholder for text in TextViews (and its subclasses) as long as they do not display any text, whereas android:contentDescription is meant as alternative textual description for non-textual content (images...). Therefore I'd set hint on the EditText only.

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