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From: Paul Collins
Date: Jan 10, 2017 11:03PM

Hi friends.

I'm currently working on a project where individual options in a select box
are disabled, using the *disabled* attribute:

*<select>*
* <option>option 1</option>*
* <option disabled>option 2</option>*
*</select>*

When using the keyboard arrow keys, it skips over each disabled option.
This also means *JAWS* doesn't read out the disabled option either.

Just wondering if anyone has tackled this and how they managed to
communicate to the screen reader user that the option is there and disabled?

Thanks for any help.
Paul