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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jul 20, 2015 6:39AM

Unless I am missing something, there is no native way for keyboard-only
users to select multiple non-contiguous options in a select box in Chrome.
This appears to be an issue first reported in 2011, with no movement
towards a resolution. If anyone knows of a way to do this, short of some
custom-coded JavaScript thing, please let me know. Otherwise, I would
encourage folks to post your support for getting this fixed here:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id172

Thanks,
Rob

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