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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Dec 5, 2011 8:18AM

Yes, the interesting thing about ARIA is that it modifies behaviors, not
functionality; so that you can script the widget to do whatever you want and
use ARIA to enhance this functionality.
This is how the Country Selector widget works, which doesn't function as a
selector either, just an edit field; the list is a separate entity that
functions as a listbox.


----- Original Message -----
From: "adam solomon" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] aria combobox


> 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:
>>
>> http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/combobox.html
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>