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Re: Combobox sufficiently accessibility-supported?

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From: _mallory
Date: Oct 10, 2015 3:40PM

Yeah I was thinking if it made sense to hold open listbox options
when users touched, then I can not care about if the device supports
touch or not, or how big/small the screen is, and let other means
close it, that could fix a lot of small-touchy-screen issues that
come up.

But it sounds like neither sniffing nor touch-event detection would
work nicely.

_m

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:25:05PM +0100, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 10/10/2015 22:23, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> >On 10/10/2015 20:49, _mallory wrote:
> >>Question: as a web developer, if I listen for a Touch event on my
> >>combobox, similar to checking for a keyup (and then checking which
> >>keys) on a control, can I determine that someone touched the screen?
>
> As an aside, I like your thinking here. As we can't "a priori"
> detect if a device is a touchscreen device AND (in the case of
> multi-input devices) if the user is in fact going to use a
> touchscreen even when present, we can (for the most part) try to
> determine which kind of combobox adaptation right at the point where
> the user interacts with it.
>
> P
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