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From: Vemaarapu Venkatesh
Date: Nov 9, 2016 10:20PM

Hello all, Greetings,

While traversing in expanded combobox list, JAWS will not announce the
location of the list item like "1of 5, 2of 5, 3 of 5" so on. I think JAWS
actually dont have this behaviour announcing the location of list items by
default. But it is necessary to make the user know where he is in the list.
Is it a bug? Please share your comments on this and also need a reference
combobox exhibiting this behaviour (JAWS should announce the location of
list items while traversing in expanded dropdown) only in windows local
system apps but not in any web app if any. I am in dialema whether to
report this as bug or not.
Need clarification on this, thank you.

Thanks,
Venkatesh