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From: Sean Murphy
Date: Oct 13, 2016 8:25PM

All,

From my searching, I haven't been successful in finding a answer to my questions.

1. Google uses and so do some other pages a predictive search functionality. As the person types in the information, the search results gets automatically updated. Screen reader's on www.google.com <http://www.google.com/>; do not handle this. Any one got example code or tips to make this style of interactive searching work with screen readers?

2. Mouse hovers when a user places a mouse pointer on top of an graphic, link, paragraph, etc. How can a screen reader or keyboard user interact with this? Does a on keyboard event have to be present? Some posts I have seen state the use of a mouse hover as I described should not be present. I am not sure the best practise here.

Sean