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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 10, 2016 7:53AM

I always make a best practice note to recommend people order options
in comboboxes logically, usually in alphabetical order, to make it
easier to locate your desired option,. It also gives you an idea of
the number of options in the combobox.
Native <select> behavior in most browsers is also that typing the
first letter of your desired option moves focus to the first element
beginning with that letter.


On 11/10/16, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Do most visual users count the number of options and maintain a count of
> where they are in the list as they move through a combo box? Perhaps adding
> changing the options to "Alabama" (1 of 50) Alaska (2 of 50) ... would make
> the combo box's more useful for everyone. </sarcasm>
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
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> To: Subhash Chhetri < <EMAIL REMOVED> >; WebAIM Discussion List
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Combobox with JAWS
>
> I agree.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivasu Chakravarthula | @csrinivasu
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 10-Nov-2016, at 18:18, Subhash Chhetri via WebAIM-Forum
>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> Hi Venkatesh,
>>
>> I never report this as a bug for a simple reason because once user moves
>> into any combo box his first priority will be to find out the desired
>> option there, so he will be less bother about the number of options.
>>
>> Another reason is once user expands any combo box, JAWS actually reads the
>> currently focusable option along with the total number of options for the
>> first time so that user can understand the total count there.
>>
>> Best Regards, Subhash Chhetri Software Accessibility QA Engineer
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Thu, 10/11/16, Vemaarapu Venkatesh < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Combobox with JAWS
>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Date: Thursday, 10 November, 2016, 10:50 AM
>>
>> 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
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