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Re: Predictive Text Search Functionality

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From: _mallory
Date: Feb 10, 2015 1:00AM

More focussed on the front end, but as a developer I found Marco's
tips page fairly easy to understand.
https://www.marcozehe.de/2014/03/11/easy-aria-tip-7-use-listbox-and-option-roles-when-constructing-autocomplete-lists/

Though I'm going to check out Bryan's links because I don't think I
saw them before.

cheers,
_mallory
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:35:05PM +0000, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> A question came up regarding coding predictive text for a search function to ensure accessibility. For example, when a user is entering an airport name such as "San Francisco" and as they type "San" results for "San Jose" or "San Juan" may appear in addition to "San Francisco."
> We have outside vendors developing a website for us and we are trying to ensure it is fully accessible. However, this is one question we didn't have an answer for them.
> Is anyone aware of what coding should be done or avoided to ensure the predictive text functionality is accessible? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Dawn
>
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