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Re: alternative to use of onChange in select menus

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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Jun 9, 2011 9:30AM

Actually, when I have had the opportunity to do user testing people using the keyboard almost always just use the down arrow when they encounter a select box. Thus the reason for not using onChange as a best practice. But if you are performing a 508 compliance audit the existence of an onChange on a select box does not make the select box non-compliant. If you can get them to add the go button, great! If not, it's not worth losing sleep over.

Michael Moore
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