Housing Planning – FRCOG

Massachusetts & Franklin County Legislators – FRCOG

Franklin County Towns and Cities – FRCOG

Community Health – FRCOG

FRCOG Council – FRCOG

Contact Us – FRCOG

Vaccine Information – FRCOG

The Rural Municipality Legislative Agenda – 2025-2026 – FRCOG

Mass in Motion – FRCOG

Respiratory Illness – FRCOG

To comply with WCAG 2.1, fields must identify what their purpose is _programmatically_. If done correctly,
this allows browsers to help users fill in forms with known information, such as their name and email address.

This is accomplished via the `autocomplete` attribute, which should be set to a 
[supported value](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete) wherever
appropriate, e.g. 

```html
<label for="name">
  First Name
</label>
<input id="name" type="text" autocomplete="given-name">
```

For fields where `autocomplete` is not appropriate, e.g. due to security, or the field not matching the
specification, the specific field should be ignored.

## Methodology

* All fields which could support `autocomplete` (e.g. text fields)
  are checked. Other fields - like dropdown menus - are ignored.
* The [accessible name](https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.2/) of each field is considered. In most cases this
  will be the `<label>` for the field.
* If the name matches a known pattern the field 
  must have an appropriate `autocomplete` value specified.
  For example, an `<input>` with type `text` with a label of 
  "First Name" would be expected to have an autocomplete value 
  of `given-name` or similar.

Note that using `autocomplete="on"` is not sufficient to pass this check, a
specific named autocomplete value must be used. See the
[supported values](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete).

## Troubleshooting

If a field is a false positive, check whether the field has an 
appropriate accessible name (i.e. a `<label>` or `aria-label`).

If the label is incorrect, Silktide may assume that the field 
requires `autocomplete` where it does not. You should fix the 
label to avoid this.

Otherwise, you can simply ignore the specific field.

## More information

* [How to use HTML 5.2 attributes](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/html/H98)

identify-input-purpose

January 2026

December 2025

Franklin County, Massachusetts

Title / URL	Issues
Housing Planning – FRCOGfrcog.org/project/housing-planning/	4
Massachusetts & Franklin County Legislators – FRCOGfrcog.org/about/legislators/	1
Franklin County Towns and Cities – FRCOGfrcog.org/about/towns/	1
Community Health – FRCOGfrcog.org/program-services/community-health/	1
FRCOG Council – FRCOGfrcog.org/boards-committees/frcog-council/	1
Contact Us – FRCOGfrcog.org/contact-us/	1
Vaccine Information – FRCOGfrcog.org/project/vaccine-information/	1
The Rural Municipality Legislative Agenda – 2025-2026 – FRCOGfrcog.org/project/rural-muni-leg-agenda-25-26/	1
Mass in Motion – FRCOGfrcog.org/project/mass-in-motion/	1
Respiratory Illness – FRCOGfrcog.org/project/covid-19/	1

Identify the purpose of fields programmatically

Franklin County, Massachusetts

Where this issue has occurred