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Re: aria combobox

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From: adam solomon
Date: Dec 5, 2011 7:39AM

Thanks guys for the responses. The examples were helpful. I am still
concerned by the following excerpt from the aria spec:

> A presentation of a select <http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#select>;;
> usually similar to a textbox <http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#textbox>;where users can type ahead to select an option, or type to enter arbitrary
> text as a new item in the list. See related listbox<http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles#listbox>;
> .
>

This seems to indicate that combobox role is reserved for a widget which
allows selection. My widget does not, and it also does not allow arbitrary
text (except for the purpose of filtering the list). Do you still maintain
that combobox would be relevant even in a non selection widget?

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Gunderson, Jon R < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> It looks like the latest jquery-ui widget for combo box supports ARIA:
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> http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/combobox.html
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> Jon
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