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Re: Using iPhone and iPad with VoiceOver - comparing apples toapples?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 22, 2016 8:54AM

> In addition, the gestures used for navigating through the <select> input's options differed on the devices. On the iPhone, swiping up moves focus to the next option. On the iPad, swiping to the right was required to navigate to the next option.

That's because they are different controls. Do to the size of the iPhone screen a native picker with rotor feature is used for combo boxes -- since it's a picker with rotor up/down arrows are used. On ipad a larger picker wouldn't make sense so there is a modal with roleless items available to choose from-- since it's not a picker you use standard left and right swipes.

Jon

Jonathan Avila
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