See #69620 (comment)

What problem does this address?

In #65458, some changes were made to match the visible label (placeholder attribute) with the actual label (aria-label attribute).

This approach will work if there is no visual label in the LinkControlSearchInput component, but it won't work as expected if it has a visual label ( hideLabelFromVision is false ).

That is, the visual label and the placeholder text will overlap (See #66313):

What is your proposed solution?

To temporarily fix this issue in the 6.8 release, #69620 was submitted. However, this approach is not ideal, so we need to investigate a more ideal approach. I think we need to consider the following points:

• If we want to hide the label visually and use the placeholder as the label instead, the aria-label should match the placeholder.
• Consumers may want to disable the placeholder but provide a label for the a11y.
• If a label for the a11y is visually displayed, I think the label should not have to match the placeholder; the placeholder should serve as a description, not a label.