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Re: Alt+Down arrow in combo box well known?

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From: Bossley, Peter A.
Date: Apr 6, 2017 4:34PM

I would say that you can't rely on them knowing about expanding select boxes. Also, Changing something based on someone arrowing through a select list is a bad idea for a few reasons, but mostly because screen reader users might not be aware of the change. Worse yet is if the change involves moving focus or loading a new page, that'll create issues for both screen reader and keyboard users.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Joseph Sherman
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Subject: [WebAIM] Alt+Down arrow in combo box well known?

Do screen reader users generally know to use Alt+Down arrow in combo box to list all possible choices?

We have a giant combo box for Country of Citizenship with 200+ options. If the user does not use Alt+Arrow to list choices, the screen reader does not tell them "X of 200".

Also it calculates whether to show Country of Birth or Residency Status "onchange", which is bad code, avoided if using Alt+Down arrow

Thanks.

Joseph