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Re: improved select boxes - still accessible

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Aug 20, 2012 2:14PM

Can you do me a favor? If you go to the following demo using Dragon
http://whatsock.com/modules/aria_sortable_listbox_module/demo.htm

Can you use voice commands to tab to the Sort button, which is a standard
button and should be actionable saying 'press enter'.

The list should then be generated dynamically, and focus set on the first
option. So from there you could say the following:

'press up' or 'press down' will navigate up and down the list
'press home' or 'press end' will jump to the start or end
'press space' will toggle an item to grab or drop
'press enter' will save the changes and rerender the list

I'm totally blind, so this is difficult for me to confirm. I'm curious if
this will work though.



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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] improved select boxes - still accessible


Thanks, Bryan, for bringing this up - Dragon (and speech recognition
software, in general). I can honestly say that I've never gotten a
drop-down menu to work with DNS. Radio buttons and Check boxes work just
fine for me, but not drop-down menus. I can land on the list, and often it
even opens up. But actually scrolling down and selecting my choice - not a
happening thing. If anyone can instruct me on what I'm doing wrong, I'd
sure appreciate it!

Gary