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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Oct 9, 2015 3:37AM

Hi list,
I did a bit of due diligence searching but the last Webaim entry mentioning the combobox is more than a year old.
Would you still consider it best practice to avoid the combobox if favour of native selects?
I like the possibility to type in a search term and see suggestions dynamically appear in a list below the input field, but I am worried that the experience might still be bad for some screen reader users.
One example I found is http://oaa-accessibility.org/example/10/ but there may be better ones.
Any thoughts?

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